To deprive; to cut off.
To debar from.
To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
She retired her self to Sebaste, and abridged her train from State to necessity.
A village in Essex, England.
From Middle English abreggen, abregge, abrigge (“curtail, lessen”), from Old French abregier, abreger, from Late Latin abbreviō, abberiāre (“make brief”). Doublet of abbreviate.
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