epitomizer

We may fancy the Titan of the pen and the tea-table, in his snuffy habit as he lived and as photographed by Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, Fanny Burney, and their epitomizer Macaulay, diving under the turnpike and emerging among the osiers and water-rats to offer his orisons at the shrine of Shakespeare.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

Although Iulius Paris, the epitomizer of Valerius, speaks of ten books, only nine are extant, and it may be doubted whether there ever was a tenth.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The name of the poet is lost, and the epitomizer has doubtless made a mistake.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Really, however, this is not the true Dio at all, but merely his shadow, seized and distorted to satisfy the ideas of his epitomizer, the monk Xiphilinus, who was separated from him by a thousand years in the flesh and another thousand in the spirit.

Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form Cassius Dio

Some recent Catholic scholars have thought that errors could also be admitted in the book itself without casting any discredit on the epitomizer, inasmuch as the latter declines to assume responsibility for the exact truth of all its contents.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The book itself begins with an elaborate preface (ii, 20-33) in which the author after mentioning that his work is an epitome of the larger history in five books of Jason of Cyrene states his motive in writing the book, and comments on the respective duties of the historian and of the epitomizer.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The final epitomizer of this earlier work probably lived not long after 50 B.C.

The Makers and Teachers of Judaism Charles Foster Kent 1896

Shakespeare's plays upon the German stage but by epitomizing the epitomizer?

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

Catholic Middle Age, the epitomizer of mediaeval thought.

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

The extract is given here to illustrate the character of the work of the epitomizer who prepared the text of the Journal as it has come down to us.

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884