单词 | abridging |
释义 | abridging, vbl. n.|aˈbrɪdʒɪŋ| [f. abridge v. + -ing1.] The act or process of shortening the duration of any thing, or lessening it; or of making a short compendium or abstract of a larger work.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 168 Yit avaylen thay to abrigging of the peyne of helle. 1475Boke of Noblesse 31 The said chieftein must pay his men..bethout any defalking [or] abbregging of here wagis. 1611Bible 2 Macc. ii. 26 This paineful labour of abridging..was not easie, but a matter of sweat. 1676Clarendon Surv. Leviathan 297 The abridging his universal jurisdiction. |

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