Abridger

[f. ABRIDGE v. + -ER¹.] One who or that which abridges, shortens, or makes abridgments; a summarizer, synoptist or compiler.

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1555. Fardle of Facions, II. iv. 137. I rather fansie … to folowe the founteines of the first Authours, then the brokes of abredgers.

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1651. trans. Bacon, Life and Death, 21. The Great Abridger of Age was the Floud.

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1699. Burnet, 39 Articles (1700), xxii. 222. He was an Abridger of a larger Work.

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1858. H. Miller, Sch. & Schoolm., 451. A concocter of paragraphs, or an abridger of Parliamentary debates.

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