Crossword clues for abridgment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abridgment \A*bridg"ment\ (-br[i^]j"ment), n. [OE. abregement. See Abridge.]
The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
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An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form, esp. of a written work; an abbreviation.
Ancient coins as abridgments of history.
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That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.]
What abridgment have you for this evening? What mask? What music?
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a diminution or curtailment, as of legal rights.
Syn: Abridgment, Compendium, Epitome, Abstract, Synopsis.
Usage: An abridgment is made by omitting the less important parts of some larger work; as, an abridgment of a dictionary. A compendium is a brief exhibition of a subject, or science, for common use; as, a compendium of American literature. An epitome corresponds to a compendium, and gives briefly the most material points of a subject; as, an epitome of history. An abstract is a brief statement of a thing in its main points. A synopsis is a bird's-eye view of a subject, or work, in its several parts.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an '''abridgment''' of pleasures or of expenses. (First attested from around (1350 to 1470).) 2 (context US English) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. (First attested from around (1350 to 1470).) 3 (context obsolete English) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly 4 (context dated legal English) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
WordNet
n. a shortened version of a written work [syn: condensation, abridgement, capsule]
Usage examples of "abridgment".
Trajan from the glimmerings of an abridgment, or the doubtful light of a panegyric.
The principal minister of the court of Ravenna, the learned Cassiodorus, gratified the inclination of the conquerors in a Gothic history, which consisted of twelve books, now reduced to the imperfect abridgment of Jornandes.
Cantemir partly draws his materials from the Synopsis of Saadi Effendi of Larissa, dedicated in the year 1696 to Sultan Mustapha, and a valuable abridgment of the original historians.
Fourteenth Amendment, as an abridgment of a privilege or immunity of citizens of the United States.
But even if we were to assume that freedom of speech and freedom of the press were protected from abridgment on the part not only of the United States but also of the States, still we should be far from the conclusion that the plaintiff in error would have us reach.
It took the position that even if freedom of the press was protected against abridgment by the State, a publication tending to obstruct the administration of justice was punishable, irrespective of its truth.
So to assure the impartial accomplishment of justice is not an abridgment of freedom of speech or freedom of the press, as these phases of liberty have heretofore been conceived even by the stoutest libertarians.
Fourteenth Amendment which secures the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States against abridgment or impairment by the law of a State.
This is very cheap, and it is a great abridgment of the sacred right of self-government to hang men for engaging in this profitable trade.
In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.
In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage, and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advocated, with labored argument to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.
Such abridgment, Black believed, in itself outweighed the injury with which the public might be threatened.
Roman court, and gave his abridgment the name of Breviary, which thus came to denote a work which from another point of view might be called a Plenary, involving as it did the collection of several works into one.
History was reduced to dry and confused abridgments, alike destitute of amusement and instruction.
Of the remaining books we have nothing left except what is found in two merger abridgments which the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in the tenth century caused to be made of the whole work.