(1):
(n.) Same as Prothonotary.
(2):
(n.) A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of the United States.
(3):
(n.) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.
(6):
(n.) A chief notary or clerk.
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