Abbreviator
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.
(2): (n.) 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.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a clerk or secretary employed in the Papal Court to aid in preparing briefs, bulls, etc. They were first employed by Benedict XII in the 14th century. Many eminent men have filled the office. Pius II (AEneas Sylvius) was an abbreviator for the Council of Basle.
