Abbreviator

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abbreviator \Ab*bre"vi*a`tor\, n. [LL.: cf. F. abbr['e]viateur.]
     1. One who abbreviates or shortens.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abbreviator
       n : one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
           [syn: {abridger}]