About: List of Masonic abbreviations

Masonic abbreviations of technical terms or of official titles are very extensively used in Freemasonry. They serve to abbreviate long or commonly-referenced titles in the fraternity. These abbreviations were rarely employed in the earlier Masonic publications. There are no abbreviations, for example, found in Anderson's Constitutions. These came into use particularly by French authors during the 19th century, and made use of the therefore sign (∴) which remains commonly used today except in English Freemasonry where the symbol is only used in the Ancient and Accepted Rite (commonly known as Rose Croix).