Obs. [ad. L. breviāt-us, pa. pple. of breviāre to shorten, f. brevis short. Cf. ABBREVIATE.] Abbreviated, shortened; short.
1509. Hawes, Conv. Swearers, 38. For a breuyat pleasure of worldly vanyte.
1515. Barclay, Egloges, IV. (1570), C. vj/2. By beastly surfeit the life is breviate.
1552. J. Mychell (title), A breuiat Cronicle contaynynge all the Kinges from Brute to this daye.
1656. Shepherd’s Kal., viii. By sloth in the time of this breviate life we gather not goods for the life eternal.
