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Definition of Breviate
1. n. A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
2. v. t. To abbreviate.
Definition of Breviate
1. Noun. A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis ¹
2. Noun. A brief missive or dispatch; a note. ¹
3. Noun. A lawyer's brief. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breviate
1. a lawyer's brief [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breviate
Literary usage of Breviate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby Augustine, John Chrysostom by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1887)
"THE FOURTH breviate: Is SIN AN ACT, OR A THING? 160 5. ... THE FOURTEENTH breviate:
CAN THAT BE A GOOD NATURE WHICH is HELD IN EVIL? . . . 163 15. ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1866)
"A breviate OF THE CARTULARY OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST. ... I have made the
breviate which follows, omitting no particular of importance, and merely cut- ..."
3. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"A breviate of the Doctrine of England in these Age* before the Norman Conquest.
But what impression the Norman victories made on the state, let politicians ..."
4. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Thomas Key, William Hew Coltman (1897)
"THE breviate or ... 11, above, p. 585, note. (/) See the Act of 1882, s. 45, the
Act of 1884, s. 5, and the Act of 1890, B. 7j and p. 260, note. breviate ..."
5. A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England by Henry Robert Plomer (1907)
"Mirror breviate Treasure Mate for merchants .... a work that was long popular
and better known as the Ready Reckoner or Trader's sure Guide. ..."
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