epitome (epitome)

[L. epitome, epitoma, He that shall out of his own reading gather for the use of another must (I think) do it by epitome or abridgment, or under heads and commonplaces. Epitomes also may be of two sorts; of any one art or part of knowledge out of many books, or of one book by itself. E ex, Advice to Sir Fulke Greville, 1596 (in Bacon's [Letters, II. 22). epitome As for the corruptions and moths of history, which are Epitomes, the use of them deserveth to be banished. 1978 e pluribus unum An example of accumulated (fourfold) epi Epitomes are helpful to the memory. Sir H. Wotton. Hence-2. Anything which represents another or others in a condensed or comprehen sive form. Thus God beholds all things, who contemplates as fully his works in their epitome as in their full volume. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 50. A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 546. The Church of St. Mark's itself, harmonious as its structure may at first sight appear, is an epitome of the changes of Venetian architecture from the tenth to the nineteenth century. Ruskin . IMG:content-0635.png:[blocks in formation] Another famous captain Britomarus, whom the epito mist Florus and others mention. Milton, Hist. Eng., i. The notes of a scholiast or epitomist. olia Elton, origins of Eng. Hist., p. 7. epitomize (ē-pit'ō-miz), v.; pret. and pp. epito mized, ppr. epitomizing. [ All the Good she [Nature] did impart Cowley, To a Lady who made Posies for Rings. too often observable in To Womankind Epitomiz'd in you. Want judgment.. IMG:content-0636.jpg:[blocks in formation] epitritic (ep-i-trit'ik), a. [ epitrochlear (ep-i-trok'lē-är), a. [NL. epitro chlearis, epitrochlearis (ep-i-trok-lē-ā'ris), n.; pl. epitrochleares (-rēz). [NL.: see epitrochlea.] A muscle, constant in some animals, occasional in man, extending from the border of the lat is sim us dors i to the ulna at or near the elbow. epitrochleo-ancone us (ep-i-trok le-o-ang-ko