"brachyology" meaning in English

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          "text": "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."
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          "text": "So also in Ps 118²⁷ the preposition עד 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), 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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          "text": "The only trouble is with \"over all things;\" what is His relation to them? Evidently that of Head also. No other view is admissible exegetically; the question becoming thus a purely grammatical one: Shall we accept a brachyology and understand a second κεφαλην before τη εκκλησια (MEYER, STIER, HODGE approvingly): \"gave Him the Head over all things (to be the Head) to the church,\" or [...]",
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          "text": "The author employs a brachyology in the last phrase: the hearers of the phrase \"than Abel\" [...] will be able to fill this out as \"than the blood of Abel\" from the mention of \"blood speaking\" [...] in the preceding phrase.",
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          "ref": "2001, Sang-Won (Aaron) Son, Corporate elements in Pauline anthropology: a study of the selected terms, idioms, and concepts in the light of Paul's usage and background, page 35:",
          "text": "The expression \"being-in-Christ\" is, therefore, according to Schweitzer, \"merely a brachyology for being partakers in the Mystical Body of Christ.\"",
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