Definition of Curtailed

1. Verb. (past of curtail) ¹

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Definition of Curtailed

1. curtail [v] - See also: curtail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtailed

cursorial
cursorily
cursoriness
cursorinesses
cursoring
cursorless
cursors
cursory
cursour
cursours
curst
curstfully
cursus
curt
curtail
curtailed (current term)
curtailer
curtailers
curtailing
curtailment
curtailments
curtails
curtain
curtain-call
curtain-raise
curtain-twitcher
curtain-twitchers
curtain call
curtain calls
curtain coating

Literary usage of Curtailed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... nor curtailed the original jurisdiction of the admiralty courts under the Constitution and Judiciary Act. From 1845 to 1858, the rule aa above cited was ..."

2. The Causes of the Present Condition of the Labouring Classes in the South of by B F Duppa (1831)
"How Expenditure may be curtailed. LET us consider, first, how the public expenditure can be absolutely curtailed. I hate the argument in favour of ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"... the Licenser liad curtailed this work of its ' fair proportion,' but on comparing the printed book with the original MS. this supposition was found to ..."

4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"... THE INDIANS—DISGUST OF THE YUMAS—MISSION- PUEBLOS FOUNDED—A NEW SYSTEM—POWERS OF FRIARS curtailed— FRANCISCAN CRITICISM—A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT—FOUNDING ..."

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