abbreviatorn.

Brit.

/əˈbriːvɪeɪtə/, U.S.

/əˈbriviˌeɪdər/

Forms:

α. 1500s– abbreviator, 1600s abbreuiator; Scottish pre-1700 abbreviatour.

β. 1600s abbreviater, 1600s abreuiater.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French abbreviateur; Latin abbreviator.

Etymology: < Middle French abbreviateur, abreviateur editor who summarizes a text (2nd half of the 14th cent.; French abréviateur ), officer of the papal chancery responsible for drafting minutes of papal letters (1534; mid 15th cent. in figurative use) and its etymon post-classical Latin abbreviator epitomist (a636 in Isidore), writer of drafts in the papal chancery (from c1400 in British sources) < abbreviat- , past participial stem of abbreviare abbreviate v. + classical Latin -or -or suffix. Compare Catalan abreviador (1st half of the 16th cent.), Spanish abreviador (1396), Portuguese abreviador (1517), Italian abbreviatore epitomist (a1334 as †abreviatore), writer of drafts in the papal chancery (1571).With β. forms compare -er suffix¹.

1. A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who

abbreviator1529

abridger1555

summarist1577

summister1577

summulary1580

summer-up1599

summist1602

breviate-maker1611

epitomist1611

epitomizer1615

barber1616

breviarist1621

epitomator1621

summulist1635

abbreviarist1679

breviator1679

compendiarist1679

compendiator1679

curtailer1724

literator1785

summarizer1861

condenser1868

trimmer1876

1529 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 593/2 George Scott abbreviatour of our souerane lordis comptis of househald.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 206 Oribasius, the great abreuiater of antiquity.

1661 J. Davies tr. D. Blondel Treat. Sibyls ii. xxiv. 138 The Abbreviator, who reduced into a small Epitome the five Books of Jason.

1745 Lit. Jrnl. Oct.–Dec. 71 Aurelius Victor, who is extremely concise on the Subject of Julian, as it became an Abbreviator, gives his Character in three Words.

1779 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 565 The opinion which attributes the last-mentioned passage to the abbreviator, rather than to the original historian.

1827 Christian Observer Mar. 155/1 The character of the original work is, we think, thus justly described by Gallois, the French abbreviator.

1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xiii. 286 Outlines in which the arid hand of the abbreviator does not become apparent.

1909 W. E. Carson Mexico xiii. 221 The Spaniards—forerunners of American abbreviators—shortened the name to Cuernavaca.

1932 H. Last Cambr. Anc. Hist. IX. ii. 52 In such a case it is impossible to suppose that the abbreviator failed to understand his original.

1992 Straits Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 3 Doctors are also great abbreviators in the notes that they make.

1999 C. F. Briggs Giles of Rome's ‘De Regimine Principum’ vi. 124 Though the abbreviator has included the final chapter, he has excised the entire first part on naval warfare.

2. Roman Catholic Church. Also with capital initial. Any of a number of prelates forming a college of the Roman Curia, having the duty of drafting the Pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees in the correct form (originally, using the standard legal abbreviations). Now historical.The college was dissolved by Pope Pius X in 1908 and the duties of the abbreviators were transferred to the prothonotaries apostolic (see prothonotary n. 2a).

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > vice-chancellor > assistant to

abbreviator1532

breviator1546

1532 Addr. from Convoc. in J. Strype Mem. Reformation v. 481 The writers, abbreviators, and registers of the letters, minutes, and bulls.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa 85 i. iii. Six of the Abbreviators places are in the Gift of the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, and the Regents is in his Eminencies.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) 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.

1771 T. Nugent tr. B. Cellini Life I. ii. xii. 460 He had himself been a prisoner in the castle of St. Angelo, for forging a papal brief, when he was abbreviator in the pontificate of pope Alexander.

1836 W. à Beckett Universal Biogr. I. 803/1 He [sc. Ciampini] wrote..a bulky history of the college of Abbreviators, to which he belonged.

1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages III. viii. 570 Pius II. had formed in the curia a college of sixty ‘abbreviators’ for the expedition of papal briefs, which became for the most part a refuge for needy men of letters.

1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 28/2 Ecclesiastical Abbreviators are officials of the Holy See.

2004 C. S. Celenza Lost Ital. Renaissance v. 123 At the top of the court's administrative branch were the apostolic secretaries, below them the papal scriptors, and then the abbreviators.

3. = methodist n. 2. rare. Now historical.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient > methodist

methodic?1541

methodist1598

abbreviator1605

methodian1612

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Fore-Speech to Rdr. sig. A5 Among Physitians, there are Empericks, Dogmaticks, Methodici, or Abbreuiators, and Paracelsians.

1962 F. L. Huntley Sir Thomas Browne vi. 78 Similarly the Methodists, nicknamed ‘abbreviators’ for their fatally lengthy diagnoses, were supposed to ‘kill with Hellebore’ without even looking at the patient.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	abbreviator
释义	abbreviatorn. Brit. /əˈbriːvɪeɪtə/, U.S. /əˈbriviˌeɪdər/ Forms: α. 1500s– abbreviator, 1600s abbreuiator; Scottish pre-1700 abbreviatour. β. 1600s abbreviater, 1600s abreuiater. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French abbreviateur; Latin abbreviator. Etymology: < Middle French abbreviateur, abreviateur editor who summarizes a text (2nd half of the 14th cent.; French abréviateur ), officer of the papal chancery responsible for drafting minutes of papal letters (1534; mid 15th cent. in figurative use) and its etymon post-classical Latin abbreviator epitomist (a636 in Isidore), writer of drafts in the papal chancery (from c1400 in British sources) < abbreviat- , past participial stem of abbreviare abbreviate v. + classical Latin -or -or suffix. Compare Catalan abreviador (1st half of the 16th cent.), Spanish abreviador (1396), Portuguese abreviador (1517), Italian abbreviatore epitomist (a1334 as †abreviatore), writer of drafts in the papal chancery (1571).With β. forms compare -er suffix¹. 1. A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who abbreviator1529 abridger1555 summarist1577 summister1577 summulary1580 summer-up1599 summist1602 breviate-maker1611 epitomist1611 epitomizer1615 barber1616 breviarist1621 epitomator1621 summulist1635 abbreviarist1679 breviator1679 compendiarist1679 compendiator1679 curtailer1724 literator1785 summarizer1861 condenser1868 trimmer1876 1529 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 593/2 George Scott abbreviatour of our souerane lordis comptis of househald. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 206 Oribasius, the great abreuiater of antiquity. 1661 J. Davies tr. D. Blondel Treat. Sibyls ii. xxiv. 138 The Abbreviator, who reduced into a small Epitome the five Books of Jason. 1745 Lit. Jrnl. Oct.–Dec. 71 Aurelius Victor, who is extremely concise on the Subject of Julian, as it became an Abbreviator, gives his Character in three Words. 1779 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) IV. 565 The opinion which attributes the last-mentioned passage to the abbreviator, rather than to the original historian. 1827 Christian Observer Mar. 155/1 The character of the original work is, we think, thus justly described by Gallois, the French abbreviator. 1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xiii. 286 Outlines in which the arid hand of the abbreviator does not become apparent. 1909 W. E. Carson Mexico xiii. 221 The Spaniards—forerunners of American abbreviators—shortened the name to Cuernavaca. 1932 H. Last Cambr. Anc. Hist. IX. ii. 52 In such a case it is impossible to suppose that the abbreviator failed to understand his original. 1992 Straits Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 3 Doctors are also great abbreviators in the notes that they make. 1999 C. F. Briggs Giles of Rome's ‘De Regimine Principum’ vi. 124 Though the abbreviator has included the final chapter, he has excised the entire first part on naval warfare. 2. Roman Catholic Church. Also with capital initial. Any of a number of prelates forming a college of the Roman Curia, having the duty of drafting the Pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees in the correct form (originally, using the standard legal abbreviations). Now historical.The college was dissolved by Pope Pius X in 1908 and the duties of the abbreviators were transferred to the prothonotaries apostolic (see prothonotary n. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > vice-chancellor > assistant to abbreviator1532 breviator1546 1532 Addr. from Convoc. in J. Strype Mem. Reformation v. 481 The writers, abbreviators, and registers of the letters, minutes, and bulls. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa 85 i. iii. Six of the Abbreviators places are in the Gift of the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, and the Regents is in his Eminencies. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) 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. 1771 T. Nugent tr. B. Cellini Life I. ii. xii. 460 He had himself been a prisoner in the castle of St. Angelo, for forging a papal brief, when he was abbreviator in the pontificate of pope Alexander. 1836 W. à Beckett Universal Biogr. I. 803/1 He [sc. Ciampini] wrote..a bulky history of the college of Abbreviators, to which he belonged. 1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages III. viii. 570 Pius II. had formed in the curia a college of sixty ‘abbreviators’ for the expedition of papal briefs, which became for the most part a refuge for needy men of letters. 1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 28/2 Ecclesiastical Abbreviators are officials of the Holy See. 2004 C. S. Celenza Lost Ital. Renaissance v. 123 At the top of the court's administrative branch were the apostolic secretaries, below them the papal scriptors, and then the abbreviators. 3. = methodist n. 2. rare. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient > methodist methodic?1541 methodist1598 abbreviator1605 methodian1612 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Fore-Speech to Rdr. sig. A5 Among Physitians, there are Empericks, Dogmaticks, Methodici, or Abbreuiators, and Paracelsians. 1962 F. L. Huntley Sir Thomas Browne vi. 78 Similarly the Methodists, nicknamed ‘abbreviators’ for their fatally lengthy diagnoses, were supposed to ‘kill with Hellebore’ without even looking at the patient. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1529
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