Word Meanings - EPITOMIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

Related words: (words related to EPITOMIST)

• EPITOMIZER
  An epitomist. Burton.
• EPITOME
  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. epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith. 2. A compact or condensed
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.