Ab-brē'vi-ā'tor, n.

(Synop., § 130), n. [L. Lat. abbreviator, Fr. abréviateur.]

1Sense 1. One who abbreviates or reduces to a smaller compass. Grafton.

2Sense 2. One of a college of seventy-two persons in the chancery of Rome, whose duty is to draw up the pope's briefs, and reduce petitions, when granted, to a due form for bulls.