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abbreviature|əˈbriːvɪətjʊə(r), -tʃə(r)|
[f. L. abbreviāt- (see prec.) + -ure.]
†1. The process of abbreviating; abbreviation, shortening. Obs.
1659Hammond On Psalms iii. 7. 26 The abbreviature or apocope hath no example. 1673Jer. Taylor Suppl. to Serm. for Year (1678) 131 I must be forced to use summaries and arts of abbreviature in the enumerating those things.
†2. An abbreviated or shortened state, condition, or form; shortness. Obs.
1614Selden Titles of Honor 114 Cultus alienus siue extraneus, or Idolatrie, which they commonly express by זע in abbreviature. 1650Jer. Taylor Holy Dying i. §3. 27 (1727) God in pity..hath reduced our misery to an abbreviature.
3. An abbreviated or abridged copy; an abridgement, compendium, epitome, or abstract.
1650Jer. Taylor Holy Dying iii. §9. 4 There are certain compendiums or abbreviatures and shortenings of religion, fitted to several states. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 55 To bestow their time in the fathers and councils rather than on compendiums and abbreviatures. 1812Coleridge The Friend v. vii. 316 (1867) It is indeed little more than an abbreviature of the preceding observation and the deductions therefrom.
4. An abbreviated or contracted form of a word or phrase; a contraction, an abbreviation.
c1630Jackson Creed viii. 27 Wks. VIII. 116 From mistake of letters or abbreviatures by the transcribers. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. (1756) 35 The hand of Providence writes often by abbreviatures. 1724Wodrow Corresp. (1843) III. 149 The reading was easy to me, though some abbreviatures stopped me a little. |