"Abbreviatory" is a word in ENGLISH
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening;
abridging.
One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.
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A college student in a philosophy class was taking his first examination. On the paper there was a single line which simply said: "Is this a question?" - Discuss. After a short time he wrote: "If that is a question, then this is an answer." The student received an "A" on the exam. A Boston brokerage house advertised for a "young Harvard graduate or the equivalent." Among the inquiries received was one from a Yale grad. He said, "Do you mean two Princeton men, or a Yale man part time?"
Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to bind or constrict.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.
Read the complete definitionServing to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
Read the complete definitionServing to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Read the complete definitionTending or serving to draw apart.
Read the complete definitionTending or serving to distract.
Read the complete definitionTending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to divert; also, distinguishing.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to emasculate.
Read the complete definitionTending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
Read the complete definitionServing of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.
Read the complete definitionHaving power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to excite; excitative.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.
Read the complete definitionServing to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
Read the complete definitionTending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to extort.
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