To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.
To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
An abridgment. [Obs.] Elyot.
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