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ABBREVIATORS , a See also:body of writers in the papal See also:chancery, whose business was to See also:sketch out and prepare in due See also:form the See also:pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores. They are first mentioned in Extravagantes of See also:John XXII. and of See also:Benedict XII. Their number was fixed at seventy-two by See also:Sixtus IV. From the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Benedict XII. (1334–1342) they were classed as de Parco majori or Praesidentiae majoris, and de See also:Farce minori. The name was derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or See also:lower (See also:major or See also:minor) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the See also:vice-See also:chancellor. After the protonotaries See also:left the sketching of the minutes to the abbreviators, those de Parco majori, who ranked as prelates, were the most important See also:officers of the apostolic chancery. By See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin V. their See also:signature was made essential to the validity of the acts of the chancery; and they obtained in course of time many.important privileges. They were suppressed in 1908 by See also:Pius X. and their duties were transferred to the protonotarii See also:apostolici participantes.
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