Usage of "abridgment"

Portuguese

compendio

Catalan

abreviació

Spanish

cápsula

Shortened form of something.

compendio

Usage of abridgment in English

No confinement, no abridgment of food nor any labor required of them. 
 The Story of Commodore John Barry 

I give you below an abridgment of my interview with Mr. Mendizabal. 
 Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Societ... 

He seemed to the general public to be nothing but a walking abridgment. 
 Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 

There has been no attempt at abridgment in any other form. 
 The English Church in the Eighteenth Century 

The work of Enfield is based on Bruckner, or is rather an abridgment. 
 The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati... 

The work of Enfield is based on Brucker, or is rather an abridgment. 
 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations 

This passage is an absolute abridgment of many chapters of Carpini. 
 The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 

But part or all of this abridgment may be lost by imperfect conduct. 
 The Subterranean Brotherhood 

If any substitute for a full translation is desired, this abridgment will serve. 
 A Mother's List of Books for Children 

I am by nature lazy; and this would be a mighty abridgment in knowledge. 
 Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce... 

Of the history he afterwards published an abridgment in English. 
 Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design... 

None the less was Rome the abridgment of every superstition. 
 Imperial Purple 

In a word, I am an abridgment of human miseries. 
 Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 

You see that this is a very short abridgment of the other intended matches. 
 Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette 

The legislator DISTRUSTS man, an abridgment of nature and a syncretism of all beings. 
 System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser... 

There was no reason for abridgment in treating of my father's connection with Greece. 
 The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol.... 