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epitomist, n.

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  One who writes an epitome.

1611   M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2   An Epitomist, that is, one that extinguished worthy whole volumes, to bring his abridgements into request.
1670   Milton Hist. Brit. i. 24   Britomarus, whom the Epitomist Florus and others mention.
1880   J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Introd. p. xv   The design of the epitomist..having been to exclude what had become obsolete.

1611—1880(Hide quotations)

 

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