a. [ad. L. Tīrōniān-us, in notæ Tīrōniānæ Tironian notes.] Of or pertaining to Tiro, the freedman of Cicero: Tironian notes, a system of shorthand in use in ancient Rome, said to have been invented or introduced by Tiro.
1828. Edin. Rev., Dec., 359. Manuscripts written entirely in the Tironian notes are not unfrequent in libraries of the date of the seventh century, as it is supposed.
1887. Daily News, 6 Oct., 5/3. One of the earliest examples shown is a psalter in Tironian notes—the shorthand characters … invented by Marcus Tullius Tiro, the freedman of Cicero; it is in Latin—written early in the tenth century.
