They were formerly, by the common law, discharged from pontage and murage but this privilege has been abridged them since by several statutes. Definition of abridge in the dictionary. reduced or lessened in duration, scope, authority, etc. Than my faint means would grant continuance
To deprive of in which sense it is followed by the particle from, or of, preceding the thing taken away.īy shewing something a more swelling port, verb the simple past tense and past participle of abridge. diminished or curtailed: Any time anyones opportunity to vote is hampered, we need to do whatever we can to see that those abridged rights are faced, challenged, and changed. Such determination abridges not that power wherein liberty consists. reduced or lessened in duration, scope, authority, etc. The determination of the will, upon enquiry, is following the direction of that guide and he, that has a power to act or not to act, according as such determination directs, is free. To make shorter in words, keeping still the same substance.Īll these sayings, being declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will essay to abridge in one volume.Ģ Macc. to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents: to abridge a reference book. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: abreger, Fr. abridge ( brij ), v.t., abridged, abridging.
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