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abbreviators, ecclesiastical Officials of the Holy See employed in abbreviating papal documents. They were organized into a college under Pope Pius II, reduced by Pope Pius VII to seventeen prelates, six lay or clerical substitutes and one sub-substitute, and let disappear entirely under Pope Saint Pius X. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Abbreviators (Abbreviare = “shorten”, “curtail”). Abbreviators are those who make an abridgment or abstract of a long writing or discourse. This is accomplished by contracting the parts, i.e. the words and sentences; an abbreviated form of writing common among the Romans. Abbreviations were of two kinds, the use of a single letter for a single … Continue reading “Abbreviators”

Abbreviator a clerk or secretary employed in the Papal Court to aid in preparing briefs, bulls, etc. They were first employed by Benedict XII in the 14th century. Many eminent men have filled the office. Pius II (AEneas Sylvius) was an abbreviator for the Council of Basle. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Abbreviations, Ecclesiastical The words most commonly abbreviated at all times are proper names, titles (official or customary), of persons or corporations, and words of frequent occurrence. A good list of those used in Roman Republican and early Imperial times may be seen in Egbert’s Latin Inscriptions (New York, 1896), 417-459. The Jewish scribes and Talmudic … Continue reading “Abbreviations, Ecclesiastical”

abbreviations (Latin: abbreviare, to shorten) The use of a single letter for the entire word, or a sign or mark for a word or phrase, a custom common from early days, especially in Greece and Rome, and adopted by Christians first as a means of keeping their secrets from enemies and then as a matter … Continue reading “Abbreviations”

Abbreviation, Methods of The use of abbreviations is due, in part, to exigencies arising from the nature of the materials employed in the making of records, whether stone, marble, bronze, or parchment. Lapidaries engravers, and copyists are under the same necessity of making the most of the space at their disposal. Such abbreviations, indeed, are … Continue reading “Abbreviation, Methods of”

Abbreviation or the use of one or two initials for the whole of a word. These first occur, in a Scriptural connection, on some of the Maccabaean coins (Bayer, De nummis Hebraeo-Samaritanis), and in a few MSS. of the O.T. (especially for ). They have been frequently resorted to for the purpose of explaining supposed … Continue reading “Abbreviation”

Abbott, William Penn D.D., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 31, 1838. His paternal great-grandfather died defending, his home against the Indians in the famed Wyoming Valley; his maternal grandfather, the Hon. Charles Miner, was the historian of Wyoming and his cousin Mrs. Anna. Wentworth, was one of our earliest missionaries … Continue reading “Abbott, William Penn”

Abbott, Thomas J a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Hartley, Canada, July 5, 1831. He experienced religion early in life; studied for the ministry in the Concord Theological School; received license to preach in 1853; and in 1858 was admitted into the New England Conference. In 1873 he was transferred to the South Carolina … Continue reading “Abbott, Thomas J”

Abbott, Samuel a wealthy philanthropist, who died at Andover, Mass., April 30, 1812, at the age of eighty years, was a merchant of Boston; and on the establishment of the Andover Theological Seminary, in 1807, he gave $20,000, and in his will bequeathed it $100,000 more. See Drake, Dict. of Amer. Biog. s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Abbott, Samuel”