- Look up
abridgement in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
abridgement (or abridgment) is a
condensing or
reduction of a book or
other creative work into...
- from 1736, and the most
recent English edition in 1832. The work is an
abridgement of
English common law
which was
widely used in the
United States during...
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Hilyat al-Awliya' wa
Tabaqat al-Asfiya' (Arabic: حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء, romanized: The
Ornament of God's
Friends and
Generations of Pure Ones)...
- just mentioned, Sir
Edward Coke; La
Graunde Abridgement (1514) by
Anthony Fitzherbert. La
Graunde Abridgement (1568) by
Robert Broke.
Epitome Annalium Librorum...
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using different words and
sentences Epitome, a
summary or
miniature form
Abridgement, the act of
reducing a
written work into a
shorter form
Summary or executive...
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Reconsiderations (Oxford
University Press, 1961)
Abridgements by D. C. Somervell: A
Study of History:
Abridgement of Vols I–VI, with a
preface by
Toynbee (Oxford...
- two
volumes in 1897;
there have been many
editions since,
including abridgements by the author's son
Erich L****witz (C****ianeum, 1948) and Burckhardt...
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History of
Baghdad (Arabic: تاريخ بغداد, romanized: Tarikh Baghdad) is a
major classical Islamic biographical dictionary written by the
medieval Muslim...
- Asimov's
Chronology of the
World is a 1991 book by
Isaac Asimov, in
which the
author explains in
chronological order important events that
happened from...
-
completed around 1800. This was a
short parody of
various school textbook abridgements of Austen's
favourite contemporary novel, The
History of Sir Charles...
