How To Use Abridged In A Sentence

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
Critics of Belgian policy contend that the right to enter is abridged in a number of instances. Refugees in the Age of Total War

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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.
My necessarily abridged synopsis of the play does a complicated and layered work little justice, so you'll have to just take my word that this is a masterful production that has it all.
Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
Of innumerable biographies of Luther the best from sympathetic Protestant pens are: Julius Köstlin, _Life of Luther, _ trans. and abridged from the German (1900); T.M. Lindsay, _Luther and the German Reformation_ (1900); A.C. M.Giffert, _M.rtin Luther, the A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
The manuscript so abridged, is submitted to you, with the earnest prayer, that if published, it may subserve the cause of truth and good citizenship. The Conflict of Truth
So, for Tim's peace of mind and history's record, here's the Diarist's excerpt in its unabridged entirety.
Wonderfully constructed narratives, such as the patriarchal stories of Genesis, are reduced and abridged as to make many of them incomprehensible.
Every word of these texts is tagged, lemmatized, and hypertext-linked to the Liddell-Scott (an abridged version), Louw-Nida, Friberg, Thayer, or Barclay-Newman lexicons.
To make things worse, commercially available audio books are usually abridged and twice as expensive as the print version.
I've only read the abridged edition/version of her novel.
I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged.
Even when the permanent Victoria Theatre opened at Sydney in 1838, its operatic productions were at first brutally abridged, translated, and arranged with music more easily at hand.
I have to admit that my heart sank when we learnt that the Marionettentheater's version of Mozart's Magic Flute was complete, unabridged, entirely in German and would last 21/2 hours - but we needn't have worried.
_janua foris, _ that is, a Januan door, and the phrase might in time be abridged into _janua, _ the noun _foris_ being understood but not expressed. The Golden Bough
It was abridged from the original work.
You can also try reading the whole unabridged book here, but I bet you don't make it even a quarter of the way to the end of the first chapter.
As a rule of thumb, most unabridged books will require at least eight cassettes at minimum, with very long ones like Peter the Great taking up to forty or more.
Unlike the Pappenheim version, the 1913 printing had a fine introduction, notes and index, albeit abridged and reworked under the editorship of Alfred Feilchenfeld.
Four plastic cassettes I assumed were the unabridged Eileen. LEGAL TENDER
I tend not to be a fan of abridged work, unless the abridgment was done by the author.
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.
The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand. Chivalry
That's right: The minds behind "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," "The Complete History of America (Abridged)" and other loopily condensed works have now concocted "Completely Hollywood (Abridged)," a movie-theme spoof that, one evening this week, sent a Kennedy Center audience into regular peals of near-hysterical laughter. Celia Wren reviews 'Completely Hollywood (Abridged)' at Kennedy Center
Over time, that insignificant value becomes significant," said Connors, who rattled through an abridged list of Khannouchi's ailments—patellofemoral syndrome, ankle impingement, bone spurs and something called hallux rigidus, which is degenerative arthritis in the big toe. The Achy Return of a Running Icon
The message in the newspaper is unabridged.
Among the gladdest tidings of the season: the re-appearance of two classics by E.B. White, recorded unabridged, decades ago. The New Oral Tradition
This reprint is the original, unabridged text.
I haTe abeady abridged die fourteen causes of disinherison in tfaatnovel, hm diey are alsobrieflf comprized in the foUowi«g TevMS. The Institutes of Justinian
An abridged algorithm of 2 D hidden Markov chain model and its parameter estimation method are made.
Although this war record of a Free French pilot in the RAF was first published in 1951, this is the first complete and unabridged edition and is based on M. Clostermann's wartime diary.
Among these were a commentary and a “questionary” on Aristotle's Physics; the latter, appearing in its first complete edition in 1551, was a much simplified and abridged version of the type of physics text that was used at Paris in the first decades of the sixteenth cen - tury. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
But the word humongous was coined during my lifetime, and Random House Unabridged gives the times of first usage as 1965-70. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
It was abridged from to original work.
The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries, specifically school libraries and small public libraries.
This is an abridged version of her new novel "The Queen and I".
Looks like lots of the stuff they have is abridged from the longer articles in the print versions (like this Bob Moog piece) but still, they're certainly worth a look. Sunday Afternoon Stuff
It was abridged from the original work.
John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons.
Perhaps the best-known argument for this view is found the unabridged edition of an otherwise excellent book, The Sovereignty of God, by A. W. Pink.
The original six hour series had been abridged into two hours and you could feel that the pacing was rushed (something that was somehow avoided in the 1955 remake).
Unfortunately he did not live long enough to marvel with me at the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" (29 letters), which I discovered by chance in my unabridged dictionary last year. The Union - All Categories
If you want to hear what that sort of accent sounds like, you can listen to the HarperCollins complete and unabridged version of Coraline on audio.
See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, -- by the blow of my adversary's weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife. The Fortunes of Nigel
Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.
Some, in the true spirit of the poor Publican, were kneeling at a considerable distance, just within view of the cross, to which they hardly lifted their eyes; others, whose penance was originally lighter, or its term abridged by frequent visits to this place, had approached the cross more nearly, and with greater signs of satisfaction. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
Seven of the thirteen case studies are included in the abridged version.
Gaiman is a fantastic reader and I recommend you rush right out and get the unabridged audiobook of Coraline.
_The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand. Chivalry
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
Most of the original treatises have perished; two thousand of these, containing three million unpunctuated and unspaced lines, were abridged to one hundred and fifty thousand lines or sentences. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
If this be true, *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* then I most certainly expect the unabridged UK audio version to follow read by John Cleese. OMW in the UK « Whatever
So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged.
An unabridged dictionary defines ‘mentum’ as a chin-like projection on some orchids or part of the median plate of an insect.
Nonetheless it's listed in many unabridged dictionaries.
True achromatism cannot be obtained with ordinary flint and crown-glass; and although in lenses of "Jena glass," outstanding colour is reduced to about one-sixth its usual amount, their term of service is fatally abridged by rapid deterioration. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
The book is an abridged account of his experiences in India before Independence.
The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries, specifically school libraries and small public libraries.
To finish this post I will leave you with an excerpt and a nonsense poem from his introduction to Burgess Unabridged, which is available online in scanned and text versions: April « 2009 « Sentence first
There are none of the shortcuts of the forties and fifties, though one sees the font of what survives, in abridged form in many later projects of that period. St. Robert's, Shorewood, Wisconsin
When I was a kid, I used to enjoy doing something very much like this by following cross-references in the unabridged dictionary at the library.
I don't think most of these books are available in abridged audio books format. What Obama's reading on the Vineyard
This article is an abridged version of his Inaugural Lecture, given at the University on 2 March.
It's so hard to tell though: I read an abridged version at seven, was enrapt by the television series at eight, read the full version at sixteen, reread it at twenty one.
The right to seek redress of wrongs in court is precious and should not be restricted or abridged, based on myths.
Have you read the unabridged edition of that book?
It was abridged from the original work.
With respect to the etymology of the word cannibal, it seems to me entirely cleared up by the discovery of the journal kept by Columbus during his first voyage of discovery, and of which Bartholomew de las Casas has left us an abridged copy. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
I've only read the abridged edition/version of her novel.
An interesting book, Sybil, but Disraeli was not much of a novelist; it reads like spirited and somewhat artless version of Brontë's Shirley, or an abridged and more explicitly class-based Wives and Daughters.
A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
You'll find it in Karrada - whether it's a gold bracelet or fuzzy slippers or the complete, unabridged collection of the late Al-Hakeem's religious lectures on CD.
Rachmaninov, who put up with truncations to most of his works, absolutely refused to shorten the concerto and played it complete and unabridged in a state of tangible tension.
It's definitely not abridged in any way, shape or form.
Hist.] 83 This interesting story, which Zosimus has abridged, is related by Eunapius, (in Excerpt. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The list ran the gamut from Aristotle to Zen, from The Catcher in the Rye to The Cat in the Hat, from epic novels to unabridged dictionaries.
The book also comes in concise and pocket editions, which are shorter but newer; i.e., they are not just abridged editions. In praise of a reference book: MWDEU
If Polanski's Twist can be faulted for anything, it's perhaps in presenting a version of the novel that feels ever so slightly abridged.
This story must be abridged.
Stephen Wilson's impressive tome that weighs in at 1024 pages invokes immediate parallels to other information sources in book form, such as the Yellow Pages or any unabridged dictionary.
Here's the abridged version of the defensive breakdowns that occured in the second half, according to Bennett: miscommunication, transition miscues, not blocking out, giving up straight-line drives to the basket, letting an opponent post up too easily. Wake Forest 76, Virginia 71: Three up, three down
A door thus guarded might be known as a janua foris, that is, a Januan door, and the phrase might in time be abridged into janua, the noun foris being understood but not expressed. Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana
Just to get everyone up to speed on the history of the now famous case, here is the abridged version of their tale: In 1958, Virginia residents Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving yes, that was his real name fanned the fire by getting married in the District of Columbia and then returned to live ever after in their home state. Buzzine » Love and Legislation
Franklin alleges prison guards abridged his “right to be supplied” with T-shirts. Funny stuff
The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code.
Same goes for professional works by Muslim authors and publishers, in books I've seen such as Caesarean Moon Births by Hamza Yusuf or the newest print of Towards Understanding the Qur'ān, the abridged version of Tahfim al-Qur'ān by Sayyid Abul A'lā Mawdūdi (how do you like THAT for romanization!) MuslimMatters.org
He has the full-length book, various abridged versions of the book, the video, the CD, the CD-ROM and the DVD.
It's an abridged edition of the original one.
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
We could transmit it by a set of abridged accounts, with a full set of accounts available on the website.
This is a further abridged version.
Because some of these emails are so long I have abridged several but provided a link to the full email.
Critics of Belgian policy contend that the right to enter is abridged in a number of instances. Refugees in the Age of Total War
By the way, the author abridged the above - mentioned story.
Perhaps the best-known argument for this view is found the unabridged edition of an otherwise excellent book, The Sovereignty of God, by A.
This is an abridged version of her new novel "The Queen and I".
I shall annex a statement of the proceedings of the M.ssion at Avignon, during the Lent of 1819, copied and abridged from a short pamphlet, written by a M. Fransoy, a lawyer of that city; which being published by Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819
Johnson and Patterson, both English professors, edited a new unabridged edition of Rural Hours and some of Cooper's other writings as well as Essays on Nature and Landscape.
an abridged version
The abridged edition was published in 1988.
To begin with, the new publishers were content to reprint and to produce abridged volumes.
A one-volume abridged edition, the basis of this publication, was published in hardback in 1992.
It is a methodical collection and under its seven titles disposes 230 abridged canons of Greek ( "Hispana" text) and African councils. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Edward E. Ericson, Jr., is a professor of English at Calvin College, and a Solzhenitsyn scholar who abridged The Gulag Archipelago in cooperation with the author.
_Frederick Henry, John DeWitt, William III_, abridged Eng.trans. by O.A. Bierstadt (1907). A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
The following article is an abridged version of a speech given by Porter in May 2000.
What follows is an edited and slightly abridged version of an interview conducted in London in October 2003.
The play was abridged for TV.
The Scherzo capriccioso, abridged in this recording in order to fit on two 78 rpm sides, was recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1930.
Then he established that demotic was a still more abridged cursive form of the hieroglyphics and was generally governed by the same rules.
See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, — by the blow of my adversary’s weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife. The Fortunes of Nigel
What follows is probably a gross violation of copyright law, since it's the whole obituary, complete and unabridged.
Abridged text of an editorial written for the People's Daily.
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.
The message in the newspaper is unabridged.
Older SF actually had a lot of "expostulatory lumps," and I rather liked them you can find some of the same sort of writing in the parts of Moby Dick and Les Miserables that are usually abridged out of those works. Does Science Fiction (Still) Matter?
Dharma has plans for a 300-page abridged version of the book.
Osborne's 1956 kitchen-sink drama, heavily abridged, receives a hyperrealist production in the real kitchen of a real house.
The word prove is usually reserved for mathematics: “to verify the correctness or validity of by mathematical demonstration or arithmetical proof” Random House Unabridged Dictionary. The Sacred Promise
Clicking on any individual object or event in the clip brings up the original unabridged video for targeted review.
Have you read the unabridged edition of that book?
(rhetoric) from Aquila Romanus and Fortunatianus; Book VI (geometry, including geography) from Solinus and in an abridged form, from Pliny the Elder; and Book X (music), from Aristide's "Quintilian". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
This article is an abridged version of his Inaugural Lecture, given at the University on 2 March.
Today, I am delivering the unabridged hardcore truth about men, monogamy, and what I call MAN-agement. Matt Titus: MANagement
For from the plan of the dipteral temple he removed the interior rows of the thirty-four columns, and in that manner abridged the expense and the work.
The abridged edition is widely used in smaller general libraries, specifically school libraries and small public libraries.
This volume is an unabridged reprint of the original volume published in The Musicians Library Series by Oliver Ditson Company, Boston, in 1915.
The magic of the original isn't dulled in this carefully abridged volume of the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was nominated for the prestigious Kate Greenaway award.
Will there be an unabridged edition later, or is this simply another error?
The forms of thou are termed archaic by Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged: "In this dictionary, the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
an unabridged novel
In addition to the full edition, there exist abridged and medium editions of the scheme.
Does it matter to you if the book you read is abridged or unabridged?
They are edited, abridged, and slightly simplified and represent a fraction of their original length.
Four plastic cassettes I assumed were the unabridged Eileen. LEGAL TENDER
They have brought out an abridged edition of the encyclopedia.
Back in the day when you had to rent a big set of cassette tapes to hear an unabridged book, I rented ‘Mrs.’
This article is an abridged version of his Inaugural Lecture, given at the University on 2 March.
The children read the novel in its abridged version.

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