briefen

present singular third person briefens · participle present briefening · participle past briefened · past briefened

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become brief

   Many of the more striking facts should be briefened in language and laid before the entire medical world.

   1897, The Chicago Clinical Review, volume 6, page 594

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   It briefens the creeds; it federates the sects; it seeks for religious unity; it gives itself, with a devotion which may well challenge our respect, to the alleviation of human misery and to the reform of the social and political order.

   1907, Proceedings at the ... Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, volume 40