abridge

• I abridge, as afterward, at discretion; and an initial account of the Barons' War, among other superfluities, I amputate as more remarkable for veracity than interest. —  Chivalry
• The field for conjecture is left open To abridge: Louis Bonaparte confesses, in this state paper, one hundred and ninety-one murders This document being cited for what it is worth, the question is, what is the true total? —  Napoleon the Little
• From the address to his patron it would seem that the Knight had requested the poet to abridge or modernise Gower's Confessio amantis. —  The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
• [12 12] I have not thought it advisable to abridge or alter this naïve account of a Christmas-day on the southern borders of the Sahara. —  Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
• It may, nevertheless, be foreseen that, in every country, the ruling class, before yielding, will abridge or destroy even these public liberties which were without danger for them when they were in the hands of laborers not organized into a class-conscious party, but forming the rearguard of other purely political parties, as radical on secondary questions as they are profoundly conservative on the fundamental question of the economic organization of property A Class-Struggle, therefore a struggle of class against class; and a struggle (this is understood), by the methods of which I will soon speak in discussing the four modes of social transformation: evolution--revolution--rebellion--individual violence. —  Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx)

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