- 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...
- 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...
- four
editions in Foxe's
lifetime and a
number of
later editions and
abridgements,
including some that
specifically reduced the text to a Book of Martyrs...
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Melville Bigelow, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.
Story published an
abridgement of his
Commentaries "for the Use of
Colleges and High Schools." In A...
- just mentioned, Sir
Edward Coke; La
Graunde Abridgement (1514) by
Anthony Fitzherbert. La
Graunde Abridgement (1568) by
Robert Broke.
Epitome Annalium Librorum...
-
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...
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Catherine Lucy Czerkawska, (born 3
December 1950) is a Scottish-based
novelist and playwright. She has
written many
plays for the
stage and for BBC Radio...
- 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...
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Hartwicke ruled that
abridgements fell
under two categories: "true
abridgements" and "coloured shortenings". True
abridgements presented a true effort...
- is
described as "unabridged",
while readings of
shorter versions are
abridgements.
Spoken audio has been
available in
schools and
public libraries and...
