- A chief notary or clerk. - Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench
and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. - A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States
of the United States. - Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts
of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of
twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office
is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official
record of beatifications. - The chief secretary of the patriarch of
Constantinople. - Same as Prothonotary.
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