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 name of the poet is lost, and the epitomizer has doubtless made a mistake.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
The final epitomizer of this earlier work probably lived not long after 50 B.C.
From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Charles Foster Kent
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
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
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
