protonotary
/prәu'tɒnәtәri/
📖 中文释义
- n. 首席书记官
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. A chief notary or clerk.
- n. Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench
- and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.
- n. A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States
- of the United States.
- 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.
- n. The chief secretary of the patriarch of
- Constantinople.
- n. Same as Prothonotary.