ppl. a. [f. ABRIDGE v. + -ED.] Shortened, cut short; contracted, condensed.

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c. 1370.  Wyclif, Rule of St. Francis, Wks. 1880, 41. Þei may haue breuyarics, þat is small sauteris or abreggid.

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1490.  Caxton, How to Die, 23. Thus endeth the trayttye abredged of the arte to lerne well to deye.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 298. In our abridged and septuagesimall ages, it is very rare … to behold the fourth generation.

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1819.  Scott, Ivanh., xiv. (1820, I. 291). In heaven’s name, said he, to what purpose serve these abridged cloaks?

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1876.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. App. 651. This account appears in an abridged form.

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