epitomize
verb (used with object)
to contain or represent in small compass; serve as a typical example of; typify.
epitomizer
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a word derived from
epitomize.
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
Significant, therefore, is his indifference to Dante, the poet par excellence of the Catholic Middle Age, the epitomizer of mediaeval thought.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
The epitomizer would not have spoken of "many kings" as intervening between Mithridates II. and Orodes, if the number had been only three.
Brucker, it would seem, has gone deeply into these repositories of their ethics, and Enfield his epitomizer, concludes in these words.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
