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Epitome

noun

(pl. epitomes)

A standard or typical example. Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype. "He provided America with an image of the good father"

A brief abstract (as of an article or book).

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"Epitome" Quotes from Famous Books

... visible world, and all that it contains, was their quarry. This one thing they set themselves to do, but each had his own special gift, and took his own road—each had his own special choice of instruments and means. Any one man combining their essential powers, would have been the epitome of a natural philosopher, in the wide sense of the man who would master ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown

... concessions made both by pro-slavery and anti-slavery adherents at this time show the relative strength of the two forces and the remarkable fact is that there could be such near-equality of fighting strength on both sides.[8] Tennessee seems to have had an epitome of this national situation within her borders. Not only the zealous work of Embree indicates this, but the general feeling of the people of eastern Tennessee toward slavery. It is interesting here ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... In epitome its account is: that a man is missing, supposed to be murdered; by name, Charles Clancy. That search is being made for his body, not yet found. That the son of a well-known planter, Ephraim Darke, himself called Richard, has been arrested on suspicion, and lodged in the county ...

— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... universal in his day of relying on them as authorities; he only quotes them, as we shall see, in order to refute their arguments. His researches throughout have the stamp of independent thought. There is nothing in these writings to lead us to suppose that they were merely an epitome of the general learning common to the astronomers of the period. As early as in the XIVth century there were chairs of astronomy in the universities of Padua and Bologna, but so late as during the entire ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... to come daily bringing with it the following twenty-seven decrees in a little more than twice that many days. I will give an epitome of the decrees that the reader at a glance may see what the Emperor undertook to do. ...

— Court Life in China • Isaac Taylor Headland

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