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English Dictionary: abbreviator by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
abbreviator
n
  1. one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
    Synonym(s): abridger, abbreviator
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Abbreviator \Ab*bre"vi*a`tor\, n. [LL.: cf. F. abbr[82]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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