abbreviator Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
    abridger.

WordNet

Ab*bre"vi*a`tor noun
Etymology
LL.: cf. F. abbréviateur.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913