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(See Grævius's Thesaurus Antiquitatum,, sqq.; Nicolai's Tractatus de Siglis Veterum; Mommsen's Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum,, sqq.; Natalis de Wailly's Paléographie, , ; Alph. Chassant's Paléographie, , and Dictionnaire des Abréviations, 3d ed., . A of the abbreviations in current use is a .)  ABBREVIATORS, a body of writers in the Papal Chancery, whose business is to sketch out and prepare in due form the Pope's bulls, briefs, and consistorial decrees.