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Definition of Abbreviators
1. abbreviator [n] - See also: abbreviator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbreviators
Literary usage of Abbreviators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Christian Church: A.D. 64-1517 by James Craigie Robertson (1873)
"The college of abbreviators, which took its origin from the days of the Avignon
papacy, ... Paul charged the abbreviators with simony and other corruption, ..."
2. A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation by Mandell Creighton (1887)
"He abolished the arrangements of Pius II., ejected his nominees from their posts,
and did away with the order of abbreviators altogether. ..."
3. A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome by Mandell Creighton (1911)
"Paul, probably with justice, regarded the abbreviators as the source of much
corruption and venality ; perhaps he was not sorry to rid himself of the ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong, Roul Tunley (1883)
"He has under him a regent, and twelve abbreviators di parco ... Besides these,
there are abbreviators di parco minore, who are scriveners, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"The case, however, of the sacred historians is exactly parallel to that of these
two abbreviators. The latter extracted the particulars, related in their ..."
6. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"Pius II. had formed in the curia a college of sixty " abbreviators " for the
expedition of papal briefs, which became for the most part a refuge for needy ..."
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