different between abbreviated vs brachyology

English

abbreviated (comparative more abbreviated, superlative most abbreviated)

Shortened; made briefer.
The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half.
Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
Scanty, as in clothing.

abbreviated

From Late Latin brachiologia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachylogy.

brachyology (plural brachyologies)

(in discussions of grammar, especially of Biblical grammar) A figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!").
- 1840, Georg Benedikt Winer, A grammar of the idioms of the Greek language of the New Testament, translated from German to English by J. H. Agnew and O. G. Ebbeke, page 442:
  In the words [...of] Acts x. 39. there might be a brachyology, in case the sense were: we are witnesses of all that he did, of this also, that they put him to death. But such an omission is not necessary.
- 1900 September, Ed. König, “Psalm cxviii 27b”, in James Hastings (editor), The Expository Times, Volume XI, Number 12, T. & T. Clark (publisher), page 566:
  So also in Ps 118²⁷ the preposition ??? might include the verb ‘come,’ which connects itself so naturally with ‘until,’ and a poetical mode of expression, which is naturally disposed to vivid brachyology (cf. Ps 118^{10b, 11b, 12b}), might discover a self-evident point in the circumstance that not the victims themselves but their blood, the precious part of them (Lv 17¹¹), is at last to touch the alter-horns.

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