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Definition of Epitomic
1. epitome [adj] - See also: epitome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epitomic
Literary usage of Epitomic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"But the epitomic character, distinct there, is absent here ; there, proem and
epilogue have been compressed ; here their redundancies of expression are left ..."
2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"But the epitomic character, distinct there, is absent here; there, proem and
epilogue have been compressed ; here their redundancies of expression are left ..."
3. The People of Mexico: Who They are and how They Live by Wallace Thompson (1921)
"It is epitomic of the stream of its life, shut away by banks of its own building,
circling and eddying within itself, unmindful alike of the call of the ..."
4. Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the by Robert Wilson Neal (1914)
"If it be inclusive, it will summarize, or total up at once, the chief traits of
the person, and put in encyclopedic or in epitomic form the leading facts ..."
5. A Reader's History of American Literature by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton (1903)
"... epitomic of the Four Monarchies, visa. The ^Grecian, Alfo a Dialogue between
Old England and ..."
6. The Problem of Logic by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein (1908)
"It does not stand conjunctively for the sum of colours other than red. Were this
its meaning, not-red would be a term fulfilling a merely epitomic or ..."
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