Our bar has been lowered way too far allowing laws to abridge individual freedoms in exchange for a nanny state. Hughes: Echoes From Gettysburg: How Americans Embrace Incivility And Ignore The Poor Richard T. We must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities. March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009 William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009 He therefore was commissioned to abridge and write a preface to a now obscure work of mental philosophy, The Light of Nature Pursued by Abraham Tucker (originally published in seven volumes from 1768 to 1777), which appeared in 1807 and may have had some influence on his own later thinking. Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher 2009 One could argue that such restrictions ' abridge' the freedom of the press, but that argument would be specious. The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849 Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849 Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849 2009Ĭonstitution that Congress can't begin to ' abridge' it, in its pride of place, is hawked at by this crested jay-bird. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with. verb reduce in scope while retaining essential elementsĪnd Anne, you seem to think Arabs ' abridge' the human rights of Jews, a month after Israel killed 1300 Palestinians, maimed thousands more, refuses to lift the blockade etc etc etc.To deprive cut off: followed by of, and formerly also by from: as, to abridge one of. To lessen diminish: as, to abridge labor.

transitive verb To deprive to cut off - followed by of, and formerly by from.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. To shorten by condensation or omission, or both rewrite or reconstruct on a smaller scale put the main or essential parts of into less space: used of writings: as, Justin abridged the history of Trogus Pompeius.transitive verb To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense to epitomize to condense.transitive verb To make shorter to shorten in duration to lessen to diminish to curtail.A bridge can connect that instrumental solo. In this use, a bridge often comes before or after an instrumental solo. Just as a physical bridge is used to connect two places together, so too can a musical bridge connect two sections of a song. In algebra, to reduce, as a compound quantity or equation, to a more simple form.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. Think of the word bridge in its primary, most literal meaning.

To deprive cut off: followed by of, and formerly also by from: as, to abridge one of rights or enjoyments.

To lessen diminish: as, to abridge labor.

To shorten by condensation or omission, or both rewrite or reconstruct on a smaller scale put the main or essential parts of into less space: used of writings: as, Justin abridged the history of Trogus Pompeius.

To make shorter curtail: as, “ abridged cloaks,” Scott, Ivanhoe, xiv.

transitive verb To reduce the length of (a written text) condense: synonym: shorten.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Def of abridge