abridge

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Some of the compilers and abridgers made what even now would be considered by popular novelists large sums.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Of mere modifiers and abridgers, the number is so great, and the merit or fame so little, that I will not trespass upon the reader's patience by any further mention of them or their works.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Prose abridgers of poetry did not go to work like that in the twelfth-thirteenth century—nor, even in the case of Charles Lamb, have they often done so since.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

And if mere copyists, compilers, abridgers, and modifiers, be encouraged as they now are, it surely will not advance.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold