Word Meanings - ABBREVIATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: ABBREVIATOR

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.

Related words: (words related to ABBREVIATOR)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• PAPALITY
  The papacy. Ld. Berners. Milton.
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• PETITIONARILY
  By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• REPLY
  To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn. -- To answer; respond; rejoin. (more info) replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• PETITIONEE
  A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• ANTIPAPAL
  Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.