PRO'TOCOL, noun [Low Latin protocollum; Gr. first, and glue; so called perhaps from the gluing together of pieces of paper, or from the spreading of it on tablets. It was formerly the upper part of a leaf of a book on which the title or name was written.] 1. The original copy of any writing. [Not now used.] 2. A record or registry.
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