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Definition of Curtailed
1. curtail [v] - See also: curtail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtailed
Literary usage of Curtailed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... nor curtailed the original jurisdiction of the admiralty courts under the
Constitution and Judiciary Act. From 1845 to 1858, the rule aa above cited was ..."
2. The Causes of the Present Condition of the Labouring Classes in the South of by B F Duppa (1831)
"How Expenditure may be curtailed. LET us consider, first, how the public expenditure
can be absolutely curtailed. I hate the argument in favour of ..."
3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"... the Licenser liad curtailed this work of its ' fair proportion,' but on
comparing the printed book with the original MS. this supposition was found to ..."
4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... THE INDIANS—DISGUST OF THE YUMAS—MISSION- PUEBLOS FOUNDED—A NEW SYSTEM—POWERS
OF FRIARS curtailed— FRANCISCAN CRITICISM—A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT—FOUNDING ..."
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