The phrase "abridged text" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a shortened or condensed version of a longer piece of writing. Example: The students were given an abridged text of the classic novel to read in class, as it would be more manageable for them to finish in one class period.
You're being fobbed off instead with the Reader's Digest abridged text, the Top of the Pops album cover version.
Instead, she said she read an abridged text of the tape by The Associated Press.
The following is an abridged text of an open letter [PDF] by John Maynard Keynes to the US president.
Yet the production, with an abridged text, still includes the famous monologues delivered by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, including an actual dagger that appears to float, a bit of technical magic that drew "oohs" from children.
As a gift to our modern-day readers, we present to you here an abridged text of the last article of the supplement, titled "The Parisian Christmas," no author credited, complete with contemporary spellings and language.
Other merchandise included sets of linen or silk placemats painted by Potter for friends with an abridged text and 12 of the illustrations.
This tendency to abridge text from either publisher's majors text to derive the GE text extends to majors text figures that appear in simplified format in derived GE texts by the same author(s) and publisher (Table 3).
Later editions altered and abridged the text, and the names of Choibalsan's coauthors eventually disappeared from the title page just as the men themselves did, as a result of purges driven by Choibalsan.
By "pruning" satellites in Text 1, we can produce an abridged version of this factorial explanation; for example: Text 2: Abridged version of Text 1, Physical Weathering.
But even in this production, with the Deval text abridged, and two Weill songs inserted, "Marie Galante" bogs down in stagy melodrama.
Abridging a majors text while generating GE texts (Table 2) may unintentionally support common biological misconceptions among GE students.
