abridgementn.

Brit.

/əˈbrɪdʒm(ə)nt/, U.S.

/əˈbrɪdʒm(ə)nt/

Forms: late Middle English abbreggement, late Middle English abreggement, late Middle English abriggement, late Middle English 1600s abregement, late Middle English–1500s abbregement, 1500s abredgment, 1500s abrygement, 1500s–1600s abbridgement, 1500s–1600s abrigement, 1500s– abridgement, 1600s– abridgment; Scottish pre-1700 abregment, pre-1700 1700s– abridgement, 1700s– abridgment.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French abregement.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman abbreggement, abreggement, Anglo-Norman and Middle French abbregement, abregement (French (now rare) abrégement ) action or process of making a shortened version of a longer text (13th cent. in Old French), shortening, curtailment, limitation, an instance of this (late 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), digest, abstract (late 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), in Anglo-Norman also reduction in amount demanded of a defendant or in settlement of an account (14th cent. or earlier, frequently in legal contexts) < abbreger , abreger , abregger , abregier , etc. abridge v. + -ment -ment suffix. In later forms with medial -dg- assimilated to the spelling of abridge v. Compare earlier abridging n., and also abbreviation n.

a. The action of reducing something in magnitude, extent, or duration; shortening, cutting short; curtailment, limitation; an instance of this. Cf. abbreviation n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment

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curtail1797

curtailment1799

clipping1839

1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 31/2 Decresse of the Kynges Custumes, and abbreggement in price of the Merchandise of this Reaume.

1460–1 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1460 §21. m. 4 I shall never doo..in prive or appert..any thing that may..sowne to the abriggement of the naturall lyf of Kyng Herry the sixt.

1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §23. m. 9 The seid acte..made to the abreggement of eny parte of the same jurisdiccion.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxi. f. lxxxx^v His sayde sone..was a cause of the abrygement, or shortynge of his dayes.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. xi. 168 Thenlargement or abridgement of functions ministeriall.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. 0. 45 Then brooke abridgement, and your eyes aduance, After your thoughts, straight backe againe to France.

1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 6 Wilt thou demonstrate, that there is any delight in a Cross, any comfort in Violent abridgments.

1754 World No. 62. ⁋8 When a fine gentleman chuses to signify his intention of making a short Visit..I am for an abridgment of the word, and only calling it a Vis.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. iii. 45 Their visit, without any unreasonable abridgment, might be previously finished.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 48 Irregular vindications of public liberty..are almost always followed by some temporary abridgments of that very liberty.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 150/1 Where the correspondence of the two series is approximately close..the development of the individual is called by Haeckel Palingenesis: while Kenogenesis designates the result of a modification or abridgement of the process.

1919 Times 5 July 11/7 The Liberté protests against this abridgement of the great historical ceremony.

1954 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 22 97 The Fourteenth Amendment..declares that no abridgements of citizens' rights shall take place.

1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae xxiv. 670 That she could or would have tolerated a single day of abridgment of her monastic autonomy is preposterous.

2002 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 23 Buderim..consented..to orders for an abridgment of time so the nominations could be accepted.

b. spec. The action or process of making a shortened version or abstract of a longer text; statement in abridged form; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging

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curtailment1799

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entailment1822

boiling1898

predigestion1904

1579 W. Fulke D. Heskins Ouerthrowne To Rdr. sig. ¶.iij^v In rehearsing of their arguments, I haue rather added weight vnto them, then taken any force from them, in my repetition or abridgement of them.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. x. 133 Tuning and tempring them [sc. speeches], by amplification, abridgement, opening, closing, [etc.].

1646 E. Leigh Treat. Divinity i. vi. 115 It appeareth manifestly, that this sentence was borrowed from David, 1 Chron. 29.11. with some Abridgement of the Prophets words.

1700 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 579 It shall contain the whole and entire Observations of Mr Brown, without any abridgment.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 232 I run over the whole History of my Life in Miniature, or by Abridgment, as I may call it.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §31. 114 The instances of abridgement and composition of quotations.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 751 The account given is essentially the same, with some abridgements and verbal differences.

1929 E. Vinaver Malory iii. 32 No extant French version can reveal anything approaching Malory's method of abridgement.

1991 D. Turley Culture Eng. Antislavery (BNC) 68 Much of this was then recycled to MPs through careful abridgement of the evidence given to parliamentary committees.

2003 Britannia 34 226 The restrictions of this report's format have required some degree of abridgement; its archival version..fully details known parallels for each type.

c. in abridgement: in a shortened or abridged form.

ΚΠ

a1612 H. Broughton Expos. Lords Prayer (?1613) 18 The enemies of Christ in the Talmud Ierusalemie, haue this saying stollen from our Gospell, in these words of Monabases sonne to King Agrippa, in abridgment thus.

1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes I. Pref. xxiii Read a History in Abridgement.

1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Blunderer ii. xiv, in Wks. Molière 83 This is but your Panegyric in abridgement.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 41 We must not..read them in abridgment.

1827 Monthly Rev. July 343 We can find only two papers that are worth exhibiting in abridgement.

1863 C. Walworth Gentle Skeptic vi. 71 This account is in abridgement as follows.

1962 B. Lewis & P. M. Holt Historians of Middle East Introd. 17 This paper, in an expanded form, has been published elsewhere and is therefore given here only in abridgement.

1993 D. J. O'Meara Plotinus 127 The Enneads,..reprinted in abridgement by Penguin Books with an introduction by J. Dillon.

a. A digest or shortened version of a longer text, treatise, etc., esp. produced by omitting the less important passages of the original; an abstract, an epitome. Formerly also: †a concise record, handbook, etc., containing the essentials or salient points of something, a compendium (obsolete). Cf. compendium n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > compendium or abridgment

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compendium1589

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compost1837

condensation1867

redaction1948

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun]

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compendium1608

abridgement1609

digestment1610

digestion1613

epitome1623

abridge1634

comprisal1640

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medulla1644

multum in parvo1653

contracta1657

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sylloge1686

contraction1697

résumé1782

compend1796

sum-up1848

roundup1884

wrap-up1960

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 67 (MED) Of alle swilke maters y shal determyn a couenable abregement, shewynge a certayn techynge of alle manere of syknes and þe remedyes.

1535 J. Husee Let. 4 Jan. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/4/92) f. 115 I do herin sende the abridgement of the statutes, for the statutes ar not yet owit.

1545 M. Coverdale (title) A shorte recapitulacion or abrigement of Erasmus Enchiridion, brefely comprehendinge the summe and contentes therof.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke Pref. sig. *vi^v A breuiarie or abridgement of phisicke.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 4 The Crowner, or the Schiref..sall take inspection of his wounds, quha is slane, & sall cause their Clerk make ane abrigement of them.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2 One that extinguished worthy whole volumes to bring his abridgements into request.

1659 T. Bushell (title) Mr. Bushell's abridgement of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's philosophical theory.

1749 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) VIII. 86 I shall, in the first place, give the principal events of it, in a chronological abridgment.

1762 T. Percy Let. 18 Oct. in Percy Lett. (1946) II. 21 This interlude is sometimes bound up with Raskel's Abridgement of the Statutes... Perhaps you have got this abridgment in your Libraries.

1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 181 Abridgments..are put..into the hands of youth, who have, or ought to have, leisure for the works at large.

1830 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry III. 317 The Birds is an abridgement, or modernization, of the comedy of Aristophanes so entitled.

1883 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 297 What we may call potted learning in the form of popular abridgments.

1903 G. F. Stout Groundwork Psychol. p. iii The work is a new one. It is not an abridgment of my Manual of Psychology.

1963 J. J. Lynch & B. Evans High School Eng. Textbks. i. ii. 51 The attempt to pass this version off as merely an abridgement and not as a simplified alteration cannot be justified.

1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 5/1 That season, Noble staged his three-part abridgement of Shakespeare's Henry VI/Richard III epic: The Plantagenets.

b. figurative. Chiefly with of. A person who or thing which epitomizes or embodies something, a compendium; a representation in miniature; the essence or distillation of something. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality

image?1534

abridgement1605

abstracta1616

proverb1659

incarnation1821

imprint1857

embodiment1868

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xv. 69 Philosophers cal man the compendiment or abridgement of the greater world.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) iii. 13 To be Master of the Sea, is an Abridgement of a Monarchy.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 327 Ingratitude is the abridgement of all basenesse.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 533 You represented your ancient coins as abridgements of history.

1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 94 Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther Let. i. 4 A filthy little abridgement of a crocodile.

1906 E. Saltus Historia Amoris ix. 104 The primal gods..had made Rome an abridgment of every superstition, the temple of every crime.

2005 18th-cent. Stud. 39 98 The notion that each human being was a perfect abridgment of the universe was only strengthened by the new science.

c. A shortened form of a word or phrase; an abbreviation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > abbreviation or contraction > a contracted word

syncope1530

syncopation?1533

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abridgement1612

contract1669

contraction1755

shrivel1873

suspension1896

stump word1922

clipping1933

1612 H. Broughton Observ. First Ten Fathers 17 IAH, an abridgment of Iehouah.

1841 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. May 141/2 The meaning of the word ‘either’... Its proper signification is ‘one or the other’, and we believe it is an abridgement of these words.

1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday III. iii. 190 As abridgements of technical terms, one notices: amp for amputation.

2006 H. Yoon Culture Fengshui in Korea v. 88 The Korean word for eight winds, Palpung, is an abridgement of the word Palbang-pung, which means ‘winds from eight directions’.

3. Law. The omission of certain parts from a writ, claim, etc., the grievance still holding good for the remainder; the omission of certain items from the damages awarded in a case. Now rare.

ΚΠ

c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. A.4 Abbregement of playnt or demaunde is when any assise is brought or wryt of dower.

1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 5 Abridgement of a plaint or demaund is wher one bringeth an Assise, writte of dower, writte of ward, or such lyke.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 4 Abridgement of a plaint or demaund.

1701 G. Booth Nature & Pract. Real Actions Suppl. 290 (side note) Abridgment of Plaints.

1864 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (ed. 3) Abridgment of damages, the right of the Court to reduce the damages in certain cases.

a1981 A. A. Leff in Yale Law Jrnl. (1985) 94 1869 A reduction of awarded damages by subsequent order of a court is sometimes called ‘abridgment of damages’.

†4. A means of passing or whiling away time; a pastime, an entertainment. Obsolete. rare.In quot. 1600 the meaning may be that of sense 2a, i.e. a shortened version of some longer work, presented for entertainment. In quot. 1603 used with reference to a group of actors.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > source of amusement or entertainment

mirtha1250

solacec1290

recreationc1400

esbatement1477

pastime1490

pastancea1500

passe-temps1542

entertainment1561

relief?1578

fancy1590

sport1598

abridgement1600

entertain1601

recreative1615

amusatory1618

nutsa1625

diverter1628

recreator1629

passatempo1632

amuser1724

fun1726

dissipation1733

resource1752

distraction1859

enlivening1859

good, clean fun1867

enlivenment1883

light relief1885

laugh1921

not one's scene1962

violon d'Ingres1963

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 39 Say, what abridgement haue you for this euening? What maske, what musicke?

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 422 Look you where my abridgement comes [1604 my abridgment comes, 1623 my Abridgements come].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	abridgement
释义	abridgementn. Brit. /əˈbrɪdʒm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈbrɪdʒm(ə)nt/ Forms: late Middle English abbreggement, late Middle English abreggement, late Middle English abriggement, late Middle English 1600s abregement, late Middle English–1500s abbregement, 1500s abredgment, 1500s abrygement, 1500s–1600s abbridgement, 1500s–1600s abrigement, 1500s– abridgement, 1600s– abridgment; Scottish pre-1700 abregment, pre-1700 1700s– abridgement, 1700s– abridgment. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French abregement. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman abbreggement, abreggement, Anglo-Norman and Middle French abbregement, abregement (French (now rare) abrégement ) action or process of making a shortened version of a longer text (13th cent. in Old French), shortening, curtailment, limitation, an instance of this (late 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), digest, abstract (late 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), in Anglo-Norman also reduction in amount demanded of a defendant or in settlement of an account (14th cent. or earlier, frequently in legal contexts) < abbreger , abreger , abregger , abregier , etc. abridge v. + -ment -ment suffix. In later forms with medial -dg- assimilated to the spelling of abridge v. Compare earlier abridging n., and also abbreviation n. 1. a. The action of reducing something in magnitude, extent, or duration; shortening, cutting short; curtailment, limitation; an instance of this. Cf. abbreviation n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > curtailment wanec1315 abridginga1382 shortinga1390 abridgement1439 defalcation1476 shorteninga1542 retrenchmentc1600 abridge1611 amputation1664 castration1728 curtail1797 curtailment1799 clipping1839 1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 31/2 Decresse of the Kynges Custumes, and abbreggement in price of the Merchandise of this Reaume. 1460–1 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1460 §21. m. 4 I shall never doo..in prive or appert..any thing that may..sowne to the abriggement of the naturall lyf of Kyng Herry the sixt. 1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §23. m. 9 The seid acte..made to the abreggement of eny parte of the same jurisdiccion. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxi. f. lxxxx^v His sayde sone..was a cause of the abrygement, or shortynge of his dayes. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. xi. 168 Thenlargement or abridgement of functions ministeriall. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. 0. 45 Then brooke abridgement, and your eyes aduance, After your thoughts, straight backe againe to France. View more context for this quotation 1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 6 Wilt thou demonstrate, that there is any delight in a Cross, any comfort in Violent abridgments. 1754 World No. 62. ⁋8 When a fine gentleman chuses to signify his intention of making a short Visit..I am for an abridgment of the word, and only calling it a Vis. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. iii. 45 Their visit, without any unreasonable abridgment, might be previously finished. View more context for this quotation 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 48 Irregular vindications of public liberty..are almost always followed by some temporary abridgments of that very liberty. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 150/1 Where the correspondence of the two series is approximately close..the development of the individual is called by Haeckel Palingenesis: while Kenogenesis designates the result of a modification or abridgement of the process. 1919 Times 5 July 11/7 The Liberté protests against this abridgement of the great historical ceremony. 1954 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 22 97 The Fourteenth Amendment..declares that no abridgements of citizens' rights shall take place. 1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae xxiv. 670 That she could or would have tolerated a single day of abridgment of her monastic autonomy is preposterous. 2002 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Apr. 23 Buderim..consented..to orders for an abridgment of time so the nominations could be accepted. b. spec. The action or process of making a shortened version or abstract of a longer text; statement in abridged form; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging bridginga1425 breviation1509 abbreviating1548 abridgement1579 contracting1585 curtailing1586 contraction1655 condensation1798 curtailment1799 epitomization1805 summarizing1808 entailment1822 boiling1898 predigestion1904 1579 W. Fulke D. Heskins Ouerthrowne To Rdr. sig. ¶.iij^v In rehearsing of their arguments, I haue rather added weight vnto them, then taken any force from them, in my repetition or abridgement of them. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. x. 133 Tuning and tempring them [sc. speeches], by amplification, abridgement, opening, closing, [etc.]. 1646 E. Leigh Treat. Divinity i. vi. 115 It appeareth manifestly, that this sentence was borrowed from David, 1 Chron. 29.11. with some Abridgement of the Prophets words. 1700 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 579 It shall contain the whole and entire Observations of Mr Brown, without any abridgment. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 232 I run over the whole History of my Life in Miniature, or by Abridgment, as I may call it. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §31. 114 The instances of abridgement and composition of quotations. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 751 The account given is essentially the same, with some abridgements and verbal differences. 1929 E. Vinaver Malory iii. 32 No extant French version can reveal anything approaching Malory's method of abridgement. 1991 D. Turley Culture Eng. Antislavery (BNC) 68 Much of this was then recycled to MPs through careful abridgement of the evidence given to parliamentary committees. 2003 Britannia 34 226 The restrictions of this report's format have required some degree of abridgement; its archival version..fully details known parallels for each type. c. in abridgement: in a shortened or abridged form. ΚΠ a1612 H. Broughton Expos. Lords Prayer (?1613) 18 The enemies of Christ in the Talmud Ierusalemie, haue this saying stollen from our Gospell, in these words of Monabases sonne to King Agrippa, in abridgment thus. 1694 tr. E. Benoist Hist. Famous Edict of Nantes I. Pref. xxiii Read a History in Abridgement. 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière Blunderer ii. xiv, in Wks. Molière 83 This is but your Panegyric in abridgement. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. vi. 41 We must not..read them in abridgment. 1827 Monthly Rev. July 343 We can find only two papers that are worth exhibiting in abridgement. 1863 C. Walworth Gentle Skeptic vi. 71 This account is in abridgement as follows. 1962 B. Lewis & P. M. Holt Historians of Middle East Introd. 17 This paper, in an expanded form, has been published elsewhere and is therefore given here only in abridgement. 1993 D. J. O'Meara Plotinus 127 The Enneads,..reprinted in abridgement by Penguin Books with an introduction by J. Dillon. 2. a. A digest or shortened version of a longer text, treatise, etc., esp. produced by omitting the less important passages of the original; an abstract, an epitome. Formerly also: †a concise record, handbook, etc., containing the essentials or salient points of something, a compendium (obsolete). Cf. compendium n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > compendium or abridgment abridgementa1500 epitome1529 compendie1574 compendiary1589 compendium1589 compend1596 reductory1699 compost1837 condensation1867 redaction1948 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] abbreviationa1464 summary1509 breve1523 bridgement1523 abbreviate1531 summulary1533 breviary1547 extract1549 digest1555 brief1563 promptuary1577 abbreviature1578 institute1578 breviation1580 breviate1581 compendiary1589 symbol1594 ramass1596 compendium1608 abridgement1609 digestment1610 digestion1613 epitome1623 abridge1634 comprisal1640 comprisurea1641 syntome1641 medulla1644 multum in parvo1653 contracta1657 landscape1656 comprehension1659 sylloge1686 contraction1697 résumé1782 compend1796 sum-up1848 roundup1884 wrap-up1960 a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 67 (MED) Of alle swilke maters y shal determyn a couenable abregement, shewynge a certayn techynge of alle manere of syknes and þe remedyes. 1535 J. Husee Let. 4 Jan. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/4/92) f. 115 I do herin sende the abridgement of the statutes, for the statutes ar not yet owit. 1545 M. Coverdale (title) A shorte recapitulacion or abrigement of Erasmus Enchiridion, brefely comprehendinge the summe and contentes therof. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke Pref. sig. vi^v A breuiarie or abridgement of phisicke. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem* 4 The Crowner, or the Schiref..sall take inspection of his wounds, quha is slane, & sall cause their Clerk make ane abrigement of them. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2 One that extinguished worthy whole volumes to bring his abridgements into request. 1659 T. Bushell (title) Mr. Bushell's abridgement of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's philosophical theory. 1749 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) VIII. 86 I shall, in the first place, give the principal events of it, in a chronological abridgment. 1762 T. Percy Let. 18 Oct. in Percy Lett. (1946) II. 21 This interlude is sometimes bound up with Raskel's Abridgement of the Statutes... Perhaps you have got this abridgment in your Libraries. 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 181 Abridgments..are put..into the hands of youth, who have, or ought to have, leisure for the works at large. 1830 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry III. 317 The Birds is an abridgement, or modernization, of the comedy of Aristophanes so entitled. 1883 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 297 What we may call potted learning in the form of popular abridgments. 1903 G. F. Stout Groundwork Psychol. p. iii The work is a new one. It is not an abridgment of my Manual of Psychology. 1963 J. J. Lynch & B. Evans High School Eng. Textbks. i. ii. 51 The attempt to pass this version off as merely an abridgement and not as a simplified alteration cannot be justified. 1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 5/1 That season, Noble staged his three-part abridgement of Shakespeare's Henry VI/Richard III epic: The Plantagenets. b. figurative. Chiefly with of. A person who or thing which epitomizes or embodies something, a compendium; a representation in miniature; the essence or distillation of something. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality image?1534 abridgement1605 abstracta1616 proverb1659 incarnation1821 imprint1857 embodiment1868 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xv. 69 Philosophers cal man the compendiment or abridgement of the greater world. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) iii. 13 To be Master of the Sea, is an Abridgement of a Monarchy. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 327 Ingratitude is the abridgement of all basenesse. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. iii. 533 You represented your ancient coins as abridgements of history. 1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 94 Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther Let. i. 4 A filthy little abridgement of a crocodile. 1906 E. Saltus Historia Amoris ix. 104 The primal gods..had made Rome an abridgment of every superstition, the temple of every crime. 2005 18th-cent. Stud. 39 98 The notion that each human being was a perfect abridgment of the universe was only strengthened by the new science. c. A shortened form of a word or phrase; an abbreviation. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > abbreviation or contraction > a contracted word syncope1530 syncopation?1533 abbreviation1576 abbreviature1602 abridgement1612 contract1669 contraction1755 shrivel1873 suspension1896 stump word1922 clipping1933 1612 H. Broughton Observ. First Ten Fathers 17 IAH, an abridgment of Iehouah. 1841 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. May 141/2 The meaning of the word ‘either’... Its proper signification is ‘one or the other’, and we believe it is an abridgement of these words. 1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday III. iii. 190 As abridgements of technical terms, one notices: amp for amputation. 2006 H. Yoon Culture Fengshui in Korea v. 88 The Korean word for eight winds, Palpung, is an abridgement of the word Palbang-pung, which means ‘winds from eight directions’. 3. Law. The omission of certain parts from a writ, claim, etc., the grievance still holding good for the remainder; the omission of certain items from the damages awarded in a case. Now rare. ΚΠ c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. A.4 Abbregement of playnt or demaunde is when any assise is brought or wryt of dower. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 5 Abridgement of a plaint or demaund is wher one bringeth an Assise, writte of dower, writte of ward, or such lyke. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 4 Abridgement of a plaint or demaund. 1701 G. Booth Nature & Pract. Real Actions Suppl. 290 (side note) Abridgment of Plaints. 1864 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (ed. 3) Abridgment of damages, the right of the Court to reduce the damages in certain cases. a1981 A. A. Leff in Yale Law Jrnl. (1985) 94 1869 A reduction of awarded damages by subsequent order of a court is sometimes called ‘abridgment of damages’. †4. A means of passing or whiling away time; a pastime, an entertainment. Obsolete. rare.In quot. 1600 the meaning may be that of sense 2a, i.e. a shortened version of some longer work, presented for entertainment. In quot. 1603 used with reference to a group of actors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > source of amusement or entertainment mirtha1250 solacec1290 recreationc1400 esbatement1477 pastime1490 pastancea1500 passe-temps1542 entertainment1561 relief?1578 fancy1590 sport1598 abridgement1600 entertain1601 recreative1615 amusatory1618 nutsa1625 diverter1628 recreator1629 passatempo1632 amuser1724 fun1726 dissipation1733 resource1752 distraction1859 enlivening1859 good, clean fun1867 enlivenment1883 light relief1885 laugh1921 not one's scene1962 violon d'Ingres1963 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 39 Say, what abridgement haue you for this euening? What maske, what musicke? View more context for this quotation 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 422 Look you where my abridgement comes [1604 my abridgment comes, 1623 my Abridgements come]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1439
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