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Definition of Abbreviates
1. abbreviate [v] - See also: abbreviate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbreviates
Literary usage of Abbreviates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Rhetoric: An Introduction to the Laws of Effective Discourse by David Jayne Hill (1877)
"(3) Language abbreviates Thinking. — In addition to their recording power, but
growing out of it, .s the power of words to take the place of a complex ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"The, register of abbreviates of adjudication. This register had its origin first
as a record of com- ..."
3. An Account of the Most Important Public Records of Great Britain: And the by Charles Purton Cooper (1832)
"... Index to the Registers of abbreviates of Adjudications from 1781 to 1820.
[This compilation has been found of great official utility. ..."