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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Abbreviator \Ab*bre"vi*a`tor\, n. [LL.: cf F. abbr['e]viateur.]
1. One who abbreviates or shortens.
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
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