Associations to the word «Abbreviator»
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Wiktionary
ABBREVIATOR, noun. Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16th century.]
ABBREVIATOR, noun. (history) (Roman Catholicism) 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. [Mid 16th century.]
Dictionary definition
ABBREVIATOR, noun. One who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.