Is the afore-mentioned preface-orial abridger going to claim this as a successful prediction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comfort's Tract Meet - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Then begin men to aspire to the second prizes; to be a profound interpreter and commenter, to be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical compounder and abridger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature] Reference

Gerard Ithier, seventh prior, and his abridger, fell into several anachronisms and mistakes, which are to be corrected by the remarks of Dom Martenne, who has given us a new and accurate edition of this life, and other pieces relating to it, Ver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

If Van Dale, the author of the “History of Oracles,” and his abridger, Fontenelle, had lived in the time of the Greeks and of the Roman republic, it might have been said with reason that they were rather good philosophers than good pagans; but, to speak sincerely, what injury do they do to Christianity by showing that the pagan priests were a set of knaves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The American Boy, wrote to the abridger afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vulpes Libris] Reference

And while the abilities of the nine – hundredth abridger of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northanger Abbey] Reference

But an audiobook is a performance into which abridger and reader and producer have put many hours of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vulpes Libris] Reference

Of the happy results of literary habits in advanced life, the Count DE TRESSAN, the elegant abridger of the old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference

Or instant loan approval one of the kotoko that tough use to turnround the turncoat of taegu negatively the reliably homothermic abridger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

As a historian he takes a low rank; as an abridger he is better, but best of all as a rhetorical anecdotist and painter of character in action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Even the abridger, compiler, and translator, though their labours cannot be ranked with those of the diurnal historiographer, yet must not be rashly doomed to annihilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference

In an act of arguably Ahabian obsessiveness, writer Damion Searls has pulled together every chapter, word, and punctuation mark that Orion's abridger cut from Melville's original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference

Indeed, the party stopped is hardly regarded as a person: no account is taken of his demerits: he is regarded simply as an abridger and diminisher of what you have a right to preserve intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Philosophy] Reference

Augustine called Mark “the abridger of Matthew;” and it must be confessed, that he often uses the same words, and tells more concisely what the other had related more copiously; yet, there is satisfactory evidence, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions.] Reference

Chapter 62 consists of a single word, "hapless" - the only word Orion's abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book's first sentence is "methodically"; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference

And M.J. Garnier, the latest abridger of the economists, says: "Reforms should tend to establish a progressional equality, if I may use the phrase, much more just, much more equitable, than the pretended equality of taxation, which is only a monstrous inequality.".    From Wordnik.com.  [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference

Critics have accused these "Commentaries concerning the MSS. in the imperial library at Vienna," as containing a great deal of rambling and desultory matter; but the vast erudition, minute research, and unabateable diligence of its author, will for ever secure to him the voice of public praise, as loud and as hearty as he has received it from his abridger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

A profound interpreter or commentor, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical compounder or abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

Indeed, Bacon puts it out of question that he himself would so have regarded it, for he goes on to explain how, after the deliverances of a master, "then begin men to aspire to the second prizes, to be a profound interpreter and commentor, to be a sharp champion and defender, to be a methodical compounder and abridger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton] Reference

This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time and space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

I became an abridger of audiobooks, mostly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elisa of Mad Fashionista's Plus Size Boutique - A Dress A Day] Reference

(10) Other errors there are in the scope that men propound to themselves, whereunto they bend their endeavours; for, whereas the more constant and devote kind of professors of any science ought to propound to themselves to make some additions to their science, they convert their labours to aspire to certain second prizes: as to be a profound interpreter or commentor, to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical compounder or abridger, and so the patrimony of knowledge cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advancement of Learning] Reference

This potent commander of the elements, this abridger of time and space, this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change in the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt -- was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers, and combiner of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes -- was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Watt] Reference

This potent commander of the elements -- this abridger of time and space -- this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt -- was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers as adapted to practical purposes, -- was not only one of the most generally well-informed, -- but one of the best and kindest of human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference