“The essay in the current issue of Midway is an abridgment of the Introduction and first chapter of his book.”
“No doubt can be entertained, that this abridgment in the duration of residence at universities is imperiously demanded by the spirit and practice of the age.”
“I tend not to be a fan of abridged work, unless the abridgment was done by the author.”
abridger
One who abridges. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
“The following is an abridgement of the speech delivered by our representative when impeaching Sir Henry Parkes.”
“No doubt can be entertained, that this abridgement in the duration of residence at universities is imperiously demanded by the spirit and practice of the age.”
“Other times they shorten what has to be read through abridgement and synthesis.”
“Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.”
“The first Collegiate was compiled to be used by college students, taking its place in a series of abridgements intended to serve students from primary to university level.”
“Various abridgements were made of it in the early middle ages, the most widely disseminated of which was the so-called Breviary of Alaric or Lex Romana Visigothorum.”
“Possokhov uses excerpts from fellow Ukrainian Yuri Krasavin's film scores and abridgments of familiar Beethoven works.”
“Various polls show that up to 80 percent of Americans expect and accept some abridgments of individual freedom to combat the threat of terrorism.”
“Finally, de Bourgogne wrote under his own name a treatise on the plague, extant in Latin, French and English texts, and in Latin and English abridgments.”
