EPITOMES

Noun

epitomes

plural of epitome

Anagrams

• epistome, epsomite

Source: Wiktionary


EPITOME

E*pit"o*me, n.; pl. Epitomes. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Ă©pitome. See Tome.]

1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.

2. A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

Syn.

– Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis; abbreviature. See Abridgment.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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