The Devil's Dictionary: Abridge

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ABRACADABRA.
ABRUPT

ABRIDGE

-v.t.

To shorten.

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

- Oliver Cromwell

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