(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(n.) Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.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.