abbreviatedadj.

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 153 She wold have a more abbreviated iourney and playner passage for the ease of her and all her compaignye.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Decurtatus,..shortened, abbreuiated.

1646 T. Philipot Poems 15 The rude wind Shall his abbreviated ashes find.

1661 Princess Cloria ii. 128 Cassianus..going under the borrowed and abbreviated name of Cassa..presented himself to your view.

1720 T. Hearne Coll. Curious Disc. Eminent Antiquaries Pref. cxxii To render it the more intelligible to others, he explain'd the abbreviated words in it.

1765 W. Weston (title) Specimens of abbreviated numbers, or, an introduction to an entire new species of arithmetic.

1845 J. Kitto Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. 8/1 This theory supposes that..the early translators who used such abbreviated copies, were..liable to error.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady III. xv. 222 The two ladies faced each other at an abbreviated table.

1926 Black Mask Feb. 61/2 An abbreviated orchestra succeeded by main strength in concealing its smallness from the ear.

1958 B. Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond Some like it Hot (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 5 (stage direct.) On the stamp-sized dance floor, six girls in abbreviated costumes are doing a frenetic Charleston.

2009 P. Carr-Gomm & R. Heygate Bk. Eng. Magic ix. 354 Besant founded the first Lodge of Co-Freemasonry (or Co-Masonry in its abbreviated form) in London.

1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 87 Shells abbreviated.

1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 17 July in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 392 The perianth..is one leaved, five cleft, abbreviated and tubular.

1893 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 26 158 Stemapods absent, their abbreviated bases rounded and held close together.

1925 W. L. Jepson Man. Flowering Plants Calif. 519 Stems long-villous, abbreviated, with the leaves mostly crowded at the base.

1999 Novon 9 23/1 Gynoecia usually on abbreviated ventral-intercalary branches devoid of vegetative leaves.

1733 Brief Ess. Chronol. Passages Scriptures 47 It must be of such an extensive Signification, as to carry the Sense of both, i.e. Abbreviando Determinatæ, Abbreviatedly Determined.

1842 Topogr. Gazetteer Scotl. II. 411/1 The church erected in it, at its being made independent, was appropriately called ‘the Kirk of the Muir’,—abbreviatedly Muirkirk.

1853 E. Forbes & S. Hanley Hist. Brit. Mollusca IV. 60 Aperture abbreviatedly lunate, only equal to two-fifths the total diameter, nearly as high as broad.

1934 Boston Daily Globe 25 Oct. 24/5 Only those who know the hostess very well may write abbreviatedly on a card of their own instead of sending a formal note.

1988 I. Werlen in P. Auer & A. di Luzio Variation & Convergence 99 The same is done—abbreviatedly—for the second situation.

2006 Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer (Nexis) 24 June The historian Jacques Barzun is famously, though abbreviatedly, quoted as having said, ‘To understand America, one must first understand baseball.’