Abbreviator
Pronunciation : Ab*bre"vi*a`tor
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [LL.: cf. F. abbr?viateur.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913