Decurtate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Decurtate is an adjective meaning (rare) Shortened, curtailed.
Meaning
(rare) Shortened, curtailed.
More Meanings
- (archaic, rare, transitive) To cut short.
Example Sentences
Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.
Other writers there are, that would haue him signifie Tyme, as that with his sythe he should measure and proportionise the length of Time, and therewith to decurtate and cut away all things contained therein.
Word Forms
- decurtates
- decurtating
- decurtated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abridged, cut-down, abbreviate, discided, decutinized, clipped.
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