Verb (used with object) : to abbreviate a speech.    From Dictionary.com. 

Soltau; Dietrich remained as before a papal abbreviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Colonia; Peter of Aquila (d. about 1370), who as abbreviator of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Suetonius; of Vitellius and Nero than the abbreviator of Cassius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference

Dion Cassius, or rather his abbreviator Xiphilin, l.lxxii. p. 1206.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Rome he became abbreviator Apostolic and referendary of the Segnatura di Giustizia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

This paragraph is very obscure, and seems to want something, omitted perhaps by the abbreviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

He seems to have been a faithful abbreviator, at least as far as this, that he has added nothing of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Latini (1230-94) merely reproduces in this respect the compilations of C. Julius Solinus, the abbreviator of Pliny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Cardinal Parizzio, and Paul III appointed him judge of the Capitol, papal abbreviator, and referendary of both signatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

And in April, during a Q&A session at Chirp, Twitter CEO Evan Williams confirmed the company would offer a link-abbreviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference

Julius Paris is an abbreviator of Valerius Maximus, and lived at the end of the fourth century or the beginning of the fifth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Dion Cassius, or rather that brute Xiphilin, his abbreviator, mentions the fever that overtook him, the same his father had met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imperial Purple] Reference

It is doubtful whether the works we possess were written by him in his youth, or are the production of an imperfectly educated abbreviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

There is so much repetition and such a lavish expenditure of words in the writings of Cassiodorus, that they lend themselves very readily to the work of the abbreviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference

What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

Whatever may be the date of the institution of the office of abbreviator, it is certain that it became of greater importance and more highly privileged upon its erection into a college of prelates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Should a large letter have to be rewritten, owing to the inexact copy of the abbreviator, the abbreviator and not the receiver of the Bull must pay the extra charge for the extra labour to the apostolic writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Bulls, and by no means the emoluments accruing to the recipient of the favour or benefice conferred by the Bull, and declares that whoever shall charge more than the tax fixed by him shall be suspended for six months from office, and upon a second violation of the law, shall be deprived of it altogether, and if the delinquent be an abbreviator, he shall be excommunicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

+ (1) that St. Mark bears in the Greek too manifest a stamp of originality that it should be regarded simply as the work of an abbreviator of St. Matthew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Rome as abbreviator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

255:) which his abbreviator is also observed to employ (Mai, iv.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established] Reference