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a·bridge

 (ə-brĭj′)
tr.v. a·bridged, a·bridg·ing, a·bridg·es
1. To reduce the length of (a written text); condense: The editor abridged the manuscript by cutting out two chapters. See Synonyms at shorten.
2. To limit; curtail: an unconstitutional law that abridged the rights of citizens.
[Middle English abregen, from Old French abregier, from Late Latin abbreviāre, to shorten; see abbreviate.]
a·bridg′er n.
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Noun1.abridger - one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written workabridger - one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work
abbreviator
redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
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And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens -- there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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The phallos, muses Randy Pedarson, the novel's fictional abridger and annotator, "is always something someone else possesses--never oneself: wealth, power, brilliance, knowledge, a bigger cock than yours, fame, a faithful or a beautiful lover, personal beauty, talent, wisdom, social assurance, a way with women or with men ...
Reid-Pharr, Robert F., ed.: Samuel R. Delany's Phallos
And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens,--there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist.
A Third Publisher's Advertisement for Susan Found: Why Didn't Crosby Publish Jane Austen?
Thompson gets down to the effectiveness of the shot/reverse shot treatment of Gollum's arguments with himself, while Kaveny shows how Gollum serves as "an abridger," who "integrat[es] the big picture of what is at stake on a moral ethical and spiritual level" (189).
Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Those arguing for abridgement or memorial reconstruction might reasonably identify these as examples of the dilution, transposition, or omission of phrasing that might occur with an abridger cutting, or an actor/ reporter attempting to recall Q2 but not quite succeeding.
Hamlet and the French connection: the relationship of Q1 and Q2 Hamlet and the evidence of Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques
And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens, there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
From involuntary object to voluntary spy: female agency, novels, and the marketplace in Northanger Abbey

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