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.
Epitomist
(E*pit"o*mist) n. One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.
Epitomize
(E*pit"o*mize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Epitomized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Epitomizing.]
1. To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller
space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.
2. To diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words. [Obs.] Addison.
Epitomizer
(E*pit"o*mi`zer) n. An epitomist. Burton.
Epitrite
(Ep"i*trite) n. [Gr. containing an integer and one third (i. e., &frac43, or in the ratio of 4 to 3);
'epi` upon, over + the third: cf. L. epitritos, F. épitrite.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A foot consisting of three long
syllables and one short syllable.
It is so called from being compounded of a spondee (which contains 4 times) with an iambus or a trochee
(which contains 3 times). It is called 1st, 2d, 3d, or 4th epitrite according as the short syllable stands
1st, 2d, etc.
Epitrochlea
(||Ep`i*troch"le*a) n. [NL. See Epi-, and Trochlea.] (Anat.) A projection on the outer side
of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.
