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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who forms an abridgment or summary; specifically, a medieval writer of a compendium (Latin summa), especially of theology, as St. Thomas Aquinas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who sums up or writes a summary.

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