单词 | reabridge |
释义 | reabridgev. transitive. To abridge again. ΚΠ a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 83 Gods abridgement of the whole world was man. Reabridge man into his least volume [etc.]. 1950 Mod. Lang. Rev. 45 376 They tried to reconstruct the full version (though their reconstruction was subsequently reabridged, differently). 1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Aug. a1/3 Through abridging, reabridging and editing out ‘rambling soliloquies’, Workman boasts that it has ‘cut down the literary canon to a lean pistol’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1631 |
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