Ab*bre"vi*a`tor (#), n. [LL.: cf. F. abbr'eviateur.]
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.
© Webster 1913.