Epitome

Epitome (epitome)
n.	(?)
Epit"ome
; pl. Epitomes (#). [L., fr. Gr. (?) a surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. (?) to cut into, cut short; 'epi` upon + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. épitome. See Tome

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.

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.

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