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▪ I. † ˈbreviate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. breviāt-us, pa. pple. of breviāre to shorten, f. brevis short. Cf. abbreviate.]
Abbreviated, shortened; short.
1509Hawes Conv. Swearers 38 For a breuyat pleasure of worldly vanyte. 1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C. vj/2 By beastly surfeit the life is breviate. 1552J. Mychell (title) A breuiat Cronicle contaynynge all the Kinges from Brute to this daye. 1656Shepherd's Kal. viii, By sloth in the time of this breviate life we gather not goods for the life eternal.
▪ II. breviate, n.|ˈbriːvɪət|
[f. prec. adj. used subst., like the L. neuter breviātum.]
1. A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement, compendium.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 226 A Breviate of all Luthers doctrine. 1650Fuller Pisgah 431 What we read in Saint Luke was onely the breviate, sum, and abridgement of his Sermon. 1709Hearne Coll. 10 Dec. (l886) II. 324 Begs H. to send mere breviates of his materials. 1862P. B. Power (title) Breviates: or Short Texts and their Teachings. 1865Reader No. 143. 341/1 A breviate of the chronicles.
b. fig.
1695Tryon Dreams & Vis. xi. 209 God made him [man]..a breviate of the nature of all things divine and humane.
c. Comb., as breviate-maker.
1611Cotgr., Extrayeur de proces, a reporter, or Abridger, of Cases; a breuiate-maker.
†2. A brief missive or dispatch; a note. Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxxv. (1612) 312 His Tablet sent she, and there with this breuiat by a Page. 1676Bullokar, Breviate, a brief note, little or short writing. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. xxii. 98, I send..for particulars of the fatal breviate thou sentest him this night.
†3. A lawyer's brief. Obs.
1594Zepheria xx. in Arb. Garner V. 75 How often hath my pen (mine hearts Solicitor!) Instructed thee in Breviat of my case! 1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 612 As well-fee'd Lawyer on his Breviate. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 192 He could over night..admit his clients..and..was then prepared, next day, to peruse his breviate.
4. ? The daily portion to be read in the breviary.
1813Hogg Queen's Wake 164 Wearied with the eternal strain Of formal breviats, cold and vain.
▪ III. † ˈbreviate, v. Obs.
[f. as prec. (or aphetic form of abbreviate).]
1. trans. To abbreviate, shorten.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 2366 By myschefe to brevyate and shorten his dayes. 1570Levins Manip. 40 Breuiate, abbreuiare. 1637Heywood Dialog. 885 Wee'l breviat your long motions Within a few short termes.
2. To abridge; spec. to abstract for counsel's instruction, to brief.
1663Manley Sollicitor 102 To breviate his Clyents cause fit to instruct counsel. 1679Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 57 The office of this Chancellor was..to breviate the matter of the petitions, for the easing of the Emperor.
Hence ˈbreviated ppl. a., ˈbreviating vbl. n.
c1590Marlowe Faust. iii. 10 The breviated names of holy saints. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. ii. ii. (1839) 82 For the breviating the prolixity of some superfluous transmigration. |