资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Prothonotary \Pro*thon"o*ta*ry\, or Protonotary
\Pro*ton"o*ta*ry\, n.; pl> {-ries}. [LL. protonotarius, fr. Gr.
   prw^tos first + L. notarius a shorthand writer, a scribe: cf.
   F. protonotaire.]
   1. A chief notary or clerk. `` My private prothonotary.''
      --Herrick.

   2. Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and
      in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the
      master. [Eng.] --Wharton. Burrill.

   3. A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of
      the United States.

   4. (R. C. Ch.) 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. (Gr. Ch.) The chief secretary of the patriarch of
      Constantinople.

   {Prothonotary warbler} (Zo["o]l.), a small American warbler
      ({Protonotaria citrea}). The general color is golden
      yellow, the back is olivaceous, the rump and tail are
      ash-color, several outer tail feathers are partly white.