List of Masonic abbreviations

Masonic abbreviations of technical terms or official titles are very extensively used in Freemasonry traditionally using the Masonic three dots. 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.