abridgeableadj.
/əˈbrɪdʒəbl/, U.S. /əˈbrɪdʒəb(ə)l/ rare before 20th cent.
Capable of being abridged; suitable for abridgement.
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abridgeable1864
1612 W. Colson Art Arithm. sig. Dddiv/2 If the dividend and divisor are two numbers commensurables, abbregeables or divisibles, the one by the other.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. vii. 338 Abridgable in a high degree.
1904 C. L. Thompson Notes U.S. Supreme Court Rep. Suppl. I. 1155 Trial by jury as abridgable privilege.
1954 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 22 97 This view would make ‘the privileges or immunities of citizens’ abridgable by each state.
1978 J. O. Lyons Invention of Self iv. 53 The book has not only been described as ideal for the nightstand, but it has often been abridged, and is very abridgeable.
1996 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 14 July 6 Among the Western world's esteemed authors, Hugo is the one most eminently abridgable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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