"Abridge" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
To reduce or contract; usually spoken of written language
To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to
diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly
by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.
To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet
retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a
history or dictionary.
What if, ladies and gentlemen, today I told you that anyone here who was born on a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday was free to leave right now? Also, they'd be given the most central parking spots in the city, and the biggest houses. They would get job interviews before others who were born later in the week, and they'd be taken first at the doctor's office, no matter how many patients were waiting in line. If you were born from Thursday to Sunday, you might try to catch up – but because you were straggling behind, the press would always point to how inefficient you are. And if you complained, you'd be dismissed for playing the birth-day card.” I shrug. “Seems silly, right? But what if on top of these arbitrary systems that inhibited your chances for success, everyone kept telling you that things were actually pretty equal?
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Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Read the complete definitionTo make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
Read the complete definitionAn abridgment.
Read the complete definitionThe result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
Read the complete definitionServing or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
Read the complete definitionAn abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
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Read the complete definitionOne who abridges.
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Read the complete definitionThat which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.
Read the complete definitionAn epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
Read the complete definitionThe act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures …
Read the complete definitionAn epitome or com.-pendlum of another and larger work, wherein the principal ideas of the larger wofk are summarily contained. …
Read the complete definitionThe right of the court to reduce the damages in certain cases. Vide Brooke, tit. "Abridgment.
Read the complete definitionTo epitomize; to abridge.
Read the complete definitionTo act upon; Influence; change; enlarge or abridge. This word is ofteu used in the sense of acting injuriously upon …
Read the complete definitionThe name given to a com-pilation of Roman and Greek law, prepared about A. D. 880 by the Emperor Basilius, …
Read the complete definitionAn abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
Read the complete definitionAn abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at …
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