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abbreviatory

[ uh-bree-vee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. serving to abbreviate or shorten:

    “IA” is an abbreviatory form of “Iowa.”



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of abbreviatory1

First recorded in 1840–50; abbreviate + -ory 1
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For what is there more prompt, more unexpected, more abbreviatory of space and time, than the maturity of an obligation?

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An abbreviatory sign having been attached to each of these constellations, the great celestial belt containing them was called "the wheel of the signs," or "a wheel in the middle of a wheel," as designated by that old Astrologer, Ezekiel the Prophet, in chap. i. and 16th verse.

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