ABBREVIATOR

ABBRE'VIATOR, noun One who abridges or reduces to a smaller compass.

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abbreviator. Abbreviator, n. one who shortens or abridges

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Ab‐bre″vi‐a′tor (�), n. [[LL.: cf. F. abbréviateur.]] 1. 1. One who abbreviates or shortens.
2. 2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.