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ABBREVIATORS, eccl. law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the Pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to be converted into Papal Bulls. Vide Bulls.

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At any given time there were in the Chamber 150 notaries, 100 solicitors of apostolic letters, 60 minor abbreviators, and 80-odd scriptors of briefs.