PROTONOTARY
- a court clerk; a chief clerk of any of various courts of law also PROTHONOTARY [n PROTONOTARIES]
- chief clerk or official in certain courts of law
- a. any of the seven members of the college of prothonotaries apostolic, charged chiefly with the registry of pontifical acts and canonizations b. honorary title for certain other prelates
- the chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople