ABRIDGE Copy link • ABRIDGEcontrahere (to draw in; orationem, Cic.): in angustum cogere (commentarios, Sall.): amputare (to prune away superfluities, narrationem): praecidere (to cut at the end; to cut short; a speech, etc.): minuere (to lessen; e.g., power, authority, expenses): imminuere (to lessen, and so weaken, libertatem, Cic.): detrahere aliquid de aliqua re; breve aliquid facere; ad justam brevitatem revocare: redigere (“to reduce :” with ad before the size to which the work is reduced: hosce ipsos ad sex libros redegit Diophanes, Varr.). To show how the labor of teaching may be abridged, brevia docendi manstrare compendia (Quint.). To abridge a work, in angustum cogere; in epitomen cogere (Auson.). To abridge a voluminous author, aliquem per multa volumina diffusum epitome circumscribere. Vid: LESSON.