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abbreviator|əˈbriːvɪeɪtə(r)|
Also 7 -er.
[a. L. abbreviātor, n. of agent f. abbreviā-re to shorten; cf. Fr. abréviateur.]
1. One who abbreviates, abridges, or shortens.
1615H. Crooke Body of Man 206 Oribasius, the great abreuiater of antiquity. 1779Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 565 The opinion which attributes the last-mentioned passage to the abbreviator, rather than to the original historian. 1860Adler Prov. Poet. xiii. 286 Outlines in which the arid hand of the abbreviator does not become apparent.
2. spec. ‘An officer in the court of Rome, appointed as assistant to the vice-chancellor for drawing up the pope's briefs, and reducing petitions, when granted, into proper form for being converted into bulls.’ Chambers 1751.
1532Addr. from Convoc. in Strype Mem. Ref. v. 481 The writers, abbreviators, and registers of the letters, minutes, and bulls. 1611Cotgr., Abbreuiateur, An abbreuiator; a maker of breefs, or of writs. 1751Chambers Cycl. The earliest mention made of abbreviators in the papal court is in one of the extravagantes of John XXII in 1317..The abbreviators at present make a college of 72 persons, divided into two parks or ranks.
†3. A school of physicians so named. Obs.
1605Timme Quersitanus Pref. v, Among Physitians there are Empericks, Dogmaticks, Methodici or Abbreviators, and Paracelsians. |