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- noun Plural form of
epitomist .
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Examples
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Shakespeare's whole mode of procedure finds something unaccommodating in the actual stage; his great talent is that of an epitomist, and since poets are, on the whole, epitomists of Nature, we must here, too, acknowledge Shakespeare's great merit; only we deny, at the same time, and that to his credit, that the stage was a worthy sphere for his genius.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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The work was popular enough to attract epitomists.
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The epitomists of Manetho are hopelessly at variance on the subject, and the monuments are silent, or nearly so.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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On the whole, criticism seems to incline towards the shorter term, though why Manetho, or his epitomists, should have enlarged it, remains an insoluble problem.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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