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abridge (Divest), verb attach, deprive of, dispossess of, disseise, divest of, expropriate, limit, restrict, seize, strip, take away, usurp, wrest from abridge (Shorten), verb abbreviate, bate, boil down, capsulize, circumcidere, compress, condense, contract, contrahere, curtail, cut down, decrease, diminish, foreshorten, give the sum and substance, lessen, praecidere, reduce, shrink, sketch, subtract, summarize, synopsize, take away, telescope, trim, whittle See also: abstract, commute, condense, constrict, curtail, decrease, digest, diminish, discount, expurgate, extract, lessen, minimize, reduce, retrench TO ABRIDGE, practice. To make shorter in words, so as to retain the sense or
substance. In law it signifies particularly the making of a declaration or
count shorter, by taking or severing away some of the substance from it.
Brook, tit. Abridgment; Com. Dig. Abridgment; 1 Vin. Ab. 109.
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| The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no
law" that abridges (limits) freedom of the press. Don Brown here abridges one chapter,
"He Was a Good Lion," using key sentences and adding just a
few links to create a swift-moving tale: as a small girl, Beryl
encounters a supposedly tame lion and is bitten before she's
rescued. Practically speaking: The law school professors and administrators
believe that the Solomon Amendment unconstitutionally abridges their
prerogative to prohibit representatives of the Pentagon's Judge
Advocate General's office--which restricts employment opportunities
for openly homosexual attorneys--from conducting job interviews on
campus. |
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