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and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.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.
