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- adjective Tending to
abbreviate ;condensed .
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If ¨ is a non-primitive constant of the language, then typically it will be introduced by an abbreviative definition.
Disjunction Jennings, Ray 2008
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Also, the above legal-metaphor is not apt, for Constitutional Law trumps any (potentially abbreviative, probably not updated) administrative directive regarding the credentials of a circulator.
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T.J. [Footnote 9: With this solecism in the printed _Flores Historiarum_ I find that a MS. in the Chetham Library agrees, the abbreviative mark used in the
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