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- Summary - a. - Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
- Summary - a. - Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.
- Summary - a. - A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.
- Sentence - n. - A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
- Recapitulate - v. t. - To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
- Minute - p. pr. & vb. n. - To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- Abstract - a. - That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.
- Short - n. - A summary account.
- Catechism - n. - A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
- Ledger - n. - A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads.
- Symbol - n. - An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
- Yearbook - n. - A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
- Sadda - n. - A work in the Persian tongue, being a summary of the Zend-Avesta, or sacred books.
- Summary - a. - Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.
- Creed - v. t. - Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
- Docket - n. - A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
- Institute - a. - Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.
- Encyclopaedia - n. - The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
- Chapiter - n. - A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles.
- Creed - v. t. - A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
- Preterition - n. - A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.
- Synopsis - n. - A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
- Summary - a. - Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
- Summarily - adv. - In a summary manner.
- Digest - v. t. - A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.