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A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].
Taking or conferring rank by brevet; as, a brevet colonel; a brevet commission.
To confer rank upon by brevet.
A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.
of Brevetcy
The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
of Brevet
of Brevet
of Breviary
An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary.
A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.
A lawyer's brief.
To abbreviate.
A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.
An abbreviature; an abbreviation.
A size of type between bourgeois and minion.
A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
Having short legs.
A breviped bird.
A brevipennate bird.