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decurtate
adj 1verb 1
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3DECURTATE + NOUN
condition
PREP.
in
ADV.
away
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adj
1
Shortened, curtailed.
Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.
verb
1
To cut short.
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.
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Bána […] lopped off his own hands and feet […] In this decurtate condition he dictated a poem of a hundred couplets.
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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
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