n.
The state or office of an abbot.
imp. & p. p.
of Abbreviate
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Abbreviate
v. t.
To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
v. t.
To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
a.
Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
a.
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
a.
Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
n.
The act of shortening, or reducing.
n.
The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
n.
The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
n.
One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
n.
One who abbreviates or shortens.
n.
One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
a.
Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
n.
An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
n.
An abridgment; a compendium or abstract.
The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.