protocolistn.
/ˈprəʊtəkɒlɪst/, U.S. /ˈproʊdəˌkɔləst/, /ˈproʊdəˌkɑləst/ 1. A person who records protocols (protocol n. 2); a registrar, a notary; a clerk, a secretary. Now chiefly historical.
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1727 tr. M. Heiss Hist. Empire I. i. iii. 66 The People..put out the Eyes, and cut off the Head of Theodore, Dean of the Roman Church, and Leo the Protocolist [Fr. Leon le Protocoliste], out of spite for their having maintain'd the Rights of the Emperor against the Pretentions of the Pope.
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 566 This high college [sc. the Holy Directing Synod] consisted of one metropolitan, one archbishop,..one protocolist, and one staff-surgeon.
1843 E. B. Lee tr. J. P. F. Richter Walt & Vult I. xx. 203 He must now to the police inspector's, Harpretch, who, as the protocolist said, was shorn bare with a whole flock of daughters.
1934 J. Kernan & M. Williams Catholic Church in Action ix. 148 The personnel of the Chancery..is now composed of a regent, two minutanti, an archivist-protocolist and three copyists or writers.
1993 J. T. Alexander tr. E. V. Anisimov Reforms Peter the Great 153 The notary compiled the protocols of the college's sessions (therefore he was often called a protocolist), then sewed all the protocols into a book.
2. A person who negotiates or draws up protocols (protocol n. 3) or treaties.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > prior draft of treaty > one who draws up
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1835 Times 31 Dec. 3/4 The last [treaty] by which the great protocolist of Downing street has marked his genuine ignorance of the people.
1842 A. Gallatin Let. 12 Apr. in H. Adams Life Albert Gallatin (1943) iv. 668 My present character of a diplomatist is so new to me that I know no other course but candor and plain-dealing. The most inexpert protocolist would beat me hollow at such work.
1872 Daily News 5 Aug. The second meeting of the Sugar Conference was held at the Foreign-office on Saturday... Mr. F. G. Walpole attended as Secretary, and Mr. H. Austin Lee as Protocolist.
1923 Times 22 Mar. 17/5 He was an excellent protocolist, whose unimpeachable accuracy as to facts did not prevent him from dexterously illuminating the picture with the artistic touch of a born diplomatic craftsman.
1991 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 11 Aug. k4 These hard-working protocolists spend countless hours acquainting international leaders..with a staggeringly cosmopolitan community.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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