abridger

Is the afore-mentioned preface-orial abridger going to claim this as a successful prediction?

Comfort's Tract Meet - The Panda's Thumb 2009

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?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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.

Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

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.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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."

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

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.

Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

[100-1] The abridger of the original journal missed the point here and his epitome is unintelligible.

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

[107-2] A remark by the abridger who noted the inconsistency between a total of 48 miles for a day and night and even an occasional 15 miles per hour.

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

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.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers; and while the abilities of the nine-hundred-and-ninety-ninth abridger of the history of England are eulogised by a thousand pens, there seems a general agreement to slight the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. '

Some Private Views James Payn 1864