abridge

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• John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons.
• She also subscribes to the talking book service run by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, where she can get complete, unabridged novels on audio tape.
• It used to be that an unabridged dictionary and an encyclopedia would be kept accessible in middle-class homes, for settling questions of language or fact.
• Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous. The Human Brain
• It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
• Critics of Belgian policy contend that the right to enter is abridged in a number of instances. Refugees in the Age of Total War
• In 1853, she published an abridgement and translation of Comte's Cours, which made it accessible to a widespread audience for the first time.
• Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
• This is the last week of classes so I am ending with a bang, or rather a "splat" - the class concludes with a great egg toss (one student today managed to successfully catch a raw egg with her face, much to the enjoyment of her peers) and a brief letter (abridged below) I wrote to all my students, concerning what I have learned in China this past year: Chengdu TOT (Training Of Trainees)
• The problem is not that he has abridged the Bible - the very creation of Scripture required the editorial judgment of its redactors - but that he has attenuated it.