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Rastall, the learned printer, brother-in-law of More, and farther, the grave abbreviator of the statutes in English, issued from his press in 1525, “The Widow Edith’s Twelve Merrie Gestys.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Dion Cassius, or rather that brute Xiphilin, his abbreviator, mentions the fever that overtook him, the same his father had met.
From Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus
It is doubtful whether the works we possess were written by him in his youth, or are the production of an imperfectly educated abbreviator.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
In so saying the Pope spoke the truth: for he had been imprisoned in the castle for forging a brief at the time when he was abbreviator di Parco Majoris.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds
He seems to have been a faithful abbreviator, at least as far as this, that he has added nothing of his own.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
