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- adjective shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts.
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- adjective
cut orshortened , especially of aliterary work - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
abridge .
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- adjective (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting
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Examples
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Some, in the true spirit of the poor Publican, were kneeling at a considerable distance, just within view of the cross, to which they hardly lifted their eyes; others, whose penance was originally lighter, or its term abridged by frequent visits to this place, had approached the cross more nearly, and with greater signs of satisfaction.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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I don't think most of these books are available in abridged audio books format.
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There are none of the shortcuts of the forties and fifties, though one sees the font of what survives, in abridged form in many later projects of that period.
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Looks like lots of the stuff they have is abridged from the longer articles in the print versions (like this Bob Moog piece) but still, they're certainly worth a look.
Sunday Afternoon Stuff KaneCitizen 2006
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Looks like lots of the stuff they have is abridged from the longer articles in the print versions (like this Bob Moog piece) but still, they're certainly worth a look.
Archive 2006-01-01 KaneCitizen 2006
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I shall annex a statement of the proceedings of the M.ssion at Avignon, during the Lent of 1819, copied and abridged from a short pamphlet, written by a M. Fransoy, a lawyer of that city; which being published by
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Of innumerable biographies of Luther the best from sympathetic Protestant pens are: Julius Köstlin, _Life of Luther, _ trans. and abridged from the German (1900); T.M. Lindsay, _Luther and the German Reformation_ (1900); A.C. M.Giffert, _M.rtin Luther, the
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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The manuscript so abridged, is submitted to you, with the earnest prayer, that if published, it may subserve the cause of truth and good citizenship.
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Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter.
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Hist.] 83 This interesting story, which Zosimus has abridged, is related by Eunapius, (in Excerpt.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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