BREVIATE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
n.

A lawyer's brief. [R.] Hudibras.

3.
v.

To abbreviate. [Obs.]


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