abridger

English

abridger (plural abridgers)

One who abridges. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.][1]
- 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 5,
  […] 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.
- 1985, Carol Shields, “Accidents” in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, 2004, p. 47,
  I am an abridger. When I tell people, at a party for instance, that I am an abridger, their faces cloud with confusion and I always have to explain. What I do is take the written work of other people and compress it.

one who abridges

“abridger” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

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