Someone who abbreviates, abridges, or shortens writing. An editor. 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 (OED).
"The earliest mention made of abbreviators in the papal court is in one of the extravagantes of John XXII in 1317."
Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia; or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences (1751).
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