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unaˈbridged, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not abridged, reduced, or shortened. In mod. use spec. of literary works.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 111 In those places where their power remaineth yet unabridged. 1772Mason Eng. Gard. i. 20 To the lawn [to] restore Its ample space, and bid it feast the sight With verdure pure, unbroken, unabridg'd. 1840Ainsworth Tower of Lond. (1864) 234 By which means your authority would be unabridged. 1864Pusey Lect. Dan. i. (1876) 49 Daniel and Ezra use unabridged, and so, older forms. 1894A. E. Waite Paracelsus' Writ. Title-p., Paracelsus the Great, now for the first time translated faithfully and unabridged into English.
b. absol. A copy of the ‘unabridged edition’ of Webster's Dictionary.
1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-T. ii. 36 You small boy there, hurry up that ‘Webster's Unabridged’! 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 302 I'm not sure that I've spelled some of these words right, but my unabridged is not handy. |