The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breviate \Bre"vi*ate\, v. t. To abbreviate. [Obs.]
Breviate \Bre"vi*ate\, n. [L. breviatus, p. p. of breviare to shorten, brevis short.]
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A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
I omit in this breviate to rehearse.
--Hakluyt.The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity.
--Bp. Porteus. A lawyer's brief. [R.]
--Hudibras.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis 2 A brief missive or dispatch; a note. 3 A lawyer's brief.
Usage examples of "breviate".
A short breviate of the contents thereof you may, if you please, take here as follows: ‘Let all men know who are concerned, that the Son of Shaddai, the great King, is engaged by covenant to his Father to bring his Mansoul to him again.
He hoped, too, that somehow the mortal suffering he had sought to ab -- breviate would be brought to an end despite his defection.