epitome
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- noun A representative or perfect example of a class or type: "He is seen . . . as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual” (Paul Kennedy).
- noun A brief summary, as of a book or article; an abstract.
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- Neither the Second Book of the Maccabees nor the larger work of Jason of Cyrene, of which it is an epitome, appears to have been known to him. — Josephus
- Indeed, all the characters who are not barbarians meet their doom in the tale: Tiberias the merchant, presented as the epitome of civilized decadence, is of course the first example, portrayed with evident scorn as a man unwilling or unable to adjust his civilized ways to life on the Frontier. — The Conquering Sword of Conan
- âGate of Things Opened,â and to contain an epitome or encyclopaedia of all essential knowledge, under the three heads of Nature, Scripture, and the Mind of Man. — The Life of John Milton
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[2 Footnote 1: Besides the Mahawanso, Rajaratnacari_, and Rajavali_, the other native chronicles relied on by Turnour in compiling his epitome were the Pujavali_, composed in the thirteenth century, the Neekaasangraha_, written A.D. 1347, and the Account of the Embassy to Siam in the reign of Raja Singha II., A.D. 1739-47, by WILBAAGEDERE MUDIANSE Footnote 2: By the help of TURNOUR'S translation of the Mahawanso and the versions of the Rajaratnacari and Rajavali, published by Upham, two authors have since expanded the Epitome of the former into something like a connected narrative, and those who wish to pursue the investigation of the early story of the island, will find facilities in the History of Ceylon, published by KNIGHTON in 1845, and in the first volume of Ceylon and its Dependencies, by PRIDHAM, London, 1849.
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) -
2] [Footnote 1: Besides the _Mahawanso, Rajaratnacari_, and _Rajavali_, the other native chronicles relied on by Turnour in compiling his epitome were the _Pujavali_, composed in the thirteenth century, the
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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- Latin epitomē, a summary, from Greek, an abridgment, from epitemnein, to cut short : epi-, epi- + temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.
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