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 E·pit·o·me n.; pl. Epitomes
 1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
    [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.   --Sydney Smith.
 2. A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class.
    An epitome of English fashionable life.   --Carlyle.
 A man so various that he seemed to be
 Not one, but all mankind's epitome.   --Dryden.
 Syn: -- Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis; abbreviature. See Abridgment.
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