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What (who) is Abridge - definition
VILLAGE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
abridge
v. a.
1.
Shorten, epitomize, condense, compress, make an abstract of.
2.
Diminish, reduce, contract, curtail, lessen, retrench, cut down. See abbreviate.
3.
Deprive of, dispossess of, divest of.
abridge
¦ verb
1. shorten (a text or film) without losing the sense.
2. Law curtail (a right or privilege).
Derivatives
abridgeable adjective
abridgement (also chiefly US abridgment) noun
abridger noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. abregier, from late L. abbreviare (see abbreviate).
Wikipedia
Abridge
Abridge is a village in Essex, England. It is on the River Roding, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district of Epping Forest and in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood and Ongar. It is part of the civil parish of Lambourne and is served by Lambourne Parish Council.
It takes its name from the brick bridge over the River Roding, which is situated just to the north of the modern centre, on the road to Theydon Bois.
Examples of use of Abridge
1. Deanna Dromgoole–Young, Aptos, California –– CNN reserves the right to abridge e–mails.
2. It is just too important, too central, not merely an amendment but a commandment: Thou Shalt Not Abridge Speech.
3. "The power to regulate must be so exercised as not, in attaining a permissible end, unduly to abridge the protected freedom". Cantwell v.
4. All‘s well that ends well." Despite the occasional trials Anton‘s love of narration puts me through, I have never – except in the case of the toll ticket – sought to abridge his speech.
5. If laws put in the Ninth Schedule abridge or abrogate fundamental rights resulting into violation of the basic structure of the Constitution, such laws have to be invalidated, it said.