‘A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992.’ abridged: 1 adj (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting an abridged version Synonyms: cut, shortened with parts removed half-length abridged to half its original length potted (British informal) summarized or abridged short primarily temporal sense indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration Antonyms: unabridged.‘Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.’.a time, place, or means of connection or transition.
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‘The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake).’.‘What follows is an edited and slightly abridged version of an interview conducted in London in October 2003.’.‘If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged.’.‘The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.’.‘Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld.’.‘My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.’.‘It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form.’.‘They are edited, abridged, and slightly simplified and represent a fraction of their original length.’.‘Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible.’.‘He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.’.‘Dharma has plans for a 300-page abridged version of the book.’.‘Does it matter to you if the book you read is abridged or unabridged?’.‘He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD.’.‘To begin with, the new publishers were content to reprint and to produce abridged volumes.’.‘The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award.’.‘To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version.’.
They were formerly, by the common law, discharged from pontage and murage but this privilege has been abridged them since by several statutes. Than my faint means would grant continuance To deprive of in which sense it is followed by the particle from, or of, preceding the thing taken away.īy shewing something a more swelling port, Such determination abridges not that power wherein liberty consists. The determination of the will, upon enquiry, is following the direction of that guide and he, that has a power to act or not to act, according as such determination directs, is free. To make shorter in words, keeping still the same substance.Īll these sayings, being declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will essay to abridge in one volume.Ģ Macc. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: abreger, Fr.
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