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Definition of Abbreviating
1. abbreviate [v] - See also: abbreviate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abbreviating
Literary usage of Abbreviating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"making use of л science, which can only be brought to bear on moral science as
a menus of illustrating it, and abbreviating the method of ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"I have searched out their acts as they are read in the church, and employed myself
in abbreviating their histories, as I find them recorded in ancient books ..."
3. The Psychology of Skill, with Special Reference to Its Acquisition in by William Frederick Book (1908)
"(c) abbreviating the Spelling.—That which takes the place of the visual fixation
of the letter association stage is at first, for most words, a full mental ..."
4. A Manual for Writers: Covering the Needs of Authors for Information on Rules by John Matthews Manly, John Arthur Powell (1913)
"... WITH RULES FOR abbreviating AND COMPOUNDING WORDS The rules which follow are
intended: (i) to indicate the better form where two or more spellings of a ..."
5. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His by William Henry Smyth (1856)
"... CN(et) F(ilii); here the accent-mark between the F and V shows its ancient
use in abbreviating the older Fouri into a modernised Furi. ..."
6. Better English for Speaking and Writing by Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr, Mary Ella Given, William Dodge Lewis (1920)
"97 abbreviating TITLES Among those present at the Christmas exercises were Mrs.
Sheridan, Dr. Lee, Mrs. Wood, Miss Wright, Mr. Hines, and the Reverend John ..."
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