breviate

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Mowbray to Belford With the particulars, in his libertine manner, of Lovelace's behaviour on his receiving the fatal breviate, and of the distracted way he is in LETTER VII.

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  1. from Latin breviatus, past participle of breviare, shorten, from brevis, short. Cf. abbreviate and breve, v.
 

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