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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Epitome \E*pit"o*me\, n.; 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. ['e]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}.

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