curtare

curtare [CL] , a to dock, cut short, cut off. b (w. abl.) to dock, deprive (of). c to shorten, tighten (fig.). a 9‥ ~at, i. truncat, minuit GlH C 2208; ~entur et circumtondeantur [equorum] caude Inst. Sempr. xlii; [terre] quod riget eterna glacie curtatur ad Arthon / orbe parallelo Hanv. IX 62 p. 378.  b equum ‥ fecit tota cauda ~ari W. Fitzst. Thom. 125; Adel. QN 69 (v. chorea 2b).  c ecclesie virtus tandem Babylonis habenas / curtabit Garl. Tri. Eccl. 14; enthymema est ~atus syllogismus Wycl. Log. I 35.