epitomist

[ ih-pit-uh-mist ]

noun

1. a person who writes an epitome.

Word History and Origins

Origin of epitomist¹

First recorded in 1605–15; epitom(e) + -ist

Example Sentences

Perhaps an epitomist may be excused for not doing equal justice all round.

From Project Gutenberg

As she delivered to the two court-people, smiling only from love, the long duodecimo history of the village and her father, not at all as a compiler or epitomist, or in a mutilated edition, but in volumes as long as her heel-ligaments; then did Clotilda and Victor feel how soothing to them was this descent from the glittering, sharp court-glaciers into the soft vales of the middling stations of life, and they both yearned to exchange polished hearts for warm ones.

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We will send each a copy of the "Agricultural Epitomist" and solicit their subscription.

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The "Agricultural Epitomist" is the only agricultural paper edited and printed on a farm.

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An epitomist of Church History has a task of no ordinary greatness....

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