abbreviator

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

abbreviator(n = noun.person) abridger - one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work; Array

is a kind of redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter

Derived forms verb abbreviate₂, verb abbreviate₁

abbreviator, n. [LL.: cf. F. abbréviateur.].

One who abbreviates or shortens. [1913 Webster]
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]

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