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#Definition for abridge free#
Absque aliquo inde reddendo Latin for without receiving any rent therefrom, a phrase identifying a free grant of lands from the Crown.Abiaticus A grandson in the male line, i.e., a son's son.An officer is sometimes appointed ad interim, when the principal officer is absent, or for some cause incapable of acting for the time. Abatuda Anything diminished as, moneta abatuda, which is money clipped or diminished in value.
One who, having no right of entry, gets possession of the freehold to the prejudice of an heir or devisee, after the time. Abator One who abates or destroys a nuisance.Abarnare (Lat.) To discover and disclose to a magistrate any secret crime.Ab Epistolis (Lat.) An officer having charge of the correspondence (epistolae) of his superior or sovereign a secretary.Our bar has been lowered way too far allowing laws to abridge individual freedoms in exchange for a nanny state. Hughes: Echoes From Gettysburg: How Americans Embrace Incivility And Ignore The Poor We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities. March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground He therefore was commissioned to abridge and write a preface to a now obscure work of mental philosophy, The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (originally published in seven volumes from 1768 to 1777), which appeared in 1807 and may have had some influence on his own later thinking.
Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher One could argue that such restrictions " abridge" the freedom of the press, but that argument would be specious. Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with.Ĭonstitution that Congress can't begin to ' abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird. verb reduce in scope while retaining essential elementsĪnd Anne, you seem to think Arabs ' abridge' the human rights of Jews, a month after Israel killed 1300 Palestinians, maimed thousands more, refuses to lift the blockade etc etc etc.transitive verb To deprive to cut off - followed by of, and formerly by from.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.transitive verb To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense to epitomize to condense.transitive verb To make shorter to shorten in duration to lessen to diminish to curtail.In algebra, to reduce, as a compound quantity or equation, to a more simple form.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To deprive cut off: followed by of, and formerly also by from: as, to abridge one of rights or enjoyments.To lessen diminish: as, to abridge labor.To shorten by condensation or omission, or both rewrite or reconstruct on a smaller scale put the main or essential parts of into less space: used of writings: as, Justin abridged the history of Trogus Pompeius. To make shorter curtail: as, “ abridged cloaks,” Scott, Ivanhoe, xiv.transitive verb To reduce the length of (a written text) condense: synonym: shorten.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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