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abbreviator 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. abridger: one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
  2. Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the ...
  3. Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens; 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