Definitions
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.
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- noun One who
sums up or writes asummary .
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He deserves his renown as the first great summist chiefly because, in spite of the opposition which his work met during his lifetime, its influence grew greater in time, until in the thirteenth century it was universally adopted as a text.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The first great summist was Peter Lombard (died 1160), author of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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