In time, abbreviators of the 1830s discovered that there was even more amusement to be obtained by using letters for phrases spelled wrongly. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)
What great contribution to Western literature do abbreviators believe they are going to be able to achieve with those two saved characters? ❋ Unknown (2010)
In my humble opinion Take that dim-witted abbreviators! ❋ Unknown (2009)
Reactions like these are interesting, because they indicate a wide range of changes within the mainstream media MSM, as the abbreviators like to call it. ❋ Torill (2005)
In fact, it is probably the case that in any classroom the most competent students are the ones who are themost proficient paraphrasers, master abbreviators of incoming information. ❋ M.D. Mel Levine (2002)
He appointed seventy-two abbreviators, of whom twelve were of the upper, or greater, and twenty-two of the lower, or lesser, presidency ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
"Sapienti consilio" of 29 June, 1908, sign the papal Bulls instead of the earlier abbreviators (q.v.). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Eusebius of Caesarea and his two abbreviators, Socrates and Sozomen, as well as Rufinus and Gelasius of Cyzicus, report no details of the theological discussions. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
His suppression in 1466 of the college of abbreviators aroused much opposition, intensified by a similar measure against the Roman ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The college of the abbreviators of the greater presidency having been suppressed, and the abbreviators of the lesser presidency having become extinct in fact, the Apostolic prothonotaries in actual office have been appointed to sign the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Those Bulls of which the expedition was by way of the Chancery were the common Bulls, which, after being reviewed by the abbreviators of the greater presidency (see ABBREVIATORS), were signed by them and by the proprietors of the vacabili, the latter of whom received the established taxes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The abbreviators found it to their own convenience and interest to use the abbreviated form, and especially was this the case at Rome. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
According to Ciampini (Lib. de Abbreviatorum de parco majore etc., cap. i) the institution of abbreviators was very ancient, succeeding after the persecutions to the notaries who recorded the acts of the martyrs. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
At the gate itself a magnificent reception had been prepared him, and the entire Pontifical Court, prelates, priests, ambassadors of the Powers, and officials of the city and curia down to the apostolic abbreviators and secretaries, waited to receive him. ❋ Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 (1912)
Pontifical Court, prelates, priests, ambassadors of the Powers, and officials of the city and curia down to the apostolic abbreviators and secretaries, waited to receive him. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
While the mediæval historians, compilers, and abbreviators from records of the past laboured under all the disadvantages of an age deficient in the critical spirit, and produced works of little value either for their substance or their literary style, the chroniclers, who told the story of their own times, Villehardouin, Joinville, ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)
All recent progress in Egyptology and Assyriology goes to prove that the fragments in question contain much authentic and precious information, in spite of the carelessness with which they were transcribed, often at second and third hand, by abbreviators of the _basse époque_. ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)
