ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not abridged, reduced, or shortened. In mod. use spec. of literary works.

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1599.  Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), III. In those places where their power remaineth yet unabridged.

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1772.  Mason, Eng. Gard., I. 20. To the lawn [to] restore Its ample space, and bid it feast the sight With verdure pure, unbroken, unabridg’d.

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1840.  Ainsworth, Tower of Lond. (1864), 234. By which means your authority would be unabridged.

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1864.  Pusey, Lect. Dan. i. (1876), 49. Daniel and Ezra use unabridged, and so, older forms.

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1894.  A. E. Waite, Paracelsus’ Writ. (Title-p.), Paracelsus the Great, now for the first time translated faithfully and unabridged into English.

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  b.  absol. A copy of the ‘unabridged edition’ of Webster’s Dictionary.

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1860.  O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakf.-t., ii. 36. You small boy there, hurry up that ‘Webster’s Unabridged!’

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1894.  H. Gardener, Unoff. Patriot, 302. I’m not sure that I’ve spelled some of these words right, but my unabridged is not handy.

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