- Look up
abridgement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
abridgement (or abridgment) is a
condensing or
reduction of a book or
other creative work into...
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using different words and
sentences Epitome, a
summary or
miniature form
Abridgement, the act of
reducing a
written work into a
shorter form
Summary or executive...
- from 1736, and the most
recent English edition in 1832. The work is an
abridgement of
English common law
which was
widely used in the
United States during...
- abridger. A
prolific contributor to BBC Radio, his
first broadcast was an
abridgement of The
Wheel Spins in 1956.
Neville Teller was born in
London in 1931...
- just mentioned, Sir
Edward Coke; La
Graunde Abridgement (1514) by
Anthony Fitzherbert. La
Graunde Abridgement (1568) by
Robert Broke.
Epitome Annalium Librorum...
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Hilyat al-Awliya' wa
Tabaqat al-Asfiya' (Arabic: حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء, romanized: The
Ornament of God's
Friends and
Generations of Pure Ones)...
- Asimov's
Chronology of the
World is a 1991 book by
Isaac Asimov, in
which the
author explains in
chronological order important events that
happened from...
-
Reconsiderations (Oxford
University Press, 1961)
Abridgements by D. C. Somervell: A
Study of History:
Abridgement of Vols I–VI, with a
preface by
Toynbee (Oxford...
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Hartwicke ruled that
abridgements fell
under two categories: "true
abridgements" and "coloured shortenings". True
abridgements presented a true effort...
- The
History of
Damascus (Arabic: تاريخ دمشق, romanized: Tarikh Dimashq) is a
major classical Islamic encyclopedic work and is
considered the
largest biographical...
