ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED. It takes the place, to some extent, of ABBREVIATE ppl. a.]
1. Shortened, cut short, in the various senses of the vb.
1552. Latimer, Serm. 3rd S. in Adv., Wks. II. 287. His hand is not abbreuiated, or his power diminished.
1870. Bowen, Logic, vii. 221. The syllogism constituting a chain may be partly complete and partly abbreviated.
1881. H. James, jun. Portrait of a Lady, liv. (in Macm. Mag., XLV. 7). The two ladies faced each other at an abbreviated table.
2. Nat. Hist. Relatively short; shorter than the ordinary type, or than the adjoining parts.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 62. Spergula … Leaves opposite, with abbreviated leaf-buds in their axils.
