Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AB-BRE'VI-A-TORS
AB-BRE'VI-A-TORAB-BRE'VI-A-TO-RY
AB-BRE'VI-A-TORS, n.
A college of seventy-two persons in the chancery of Rome, whose duty is to draw up the Pope's briefs, and reduce petitions when granted, to a due form for bulls.
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