Vocabulary : Abbreviated to Abdest
Abbreviated : of Abbreviate ;; Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.Abbreviating : of Abbreviate
Abbreviation : The act of shortening, or reducing. ;; The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. ;; The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. ;; One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Abbreviator : One who abbreviates or shortens. ;; One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
Abbreviatory : Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
