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epitome

[ih-pit-uh-mee] / ɪˈpɪt ə mi /




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Epitome of the day's procedure was his royal arising, witnessed daily by some 300 fawning souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

These combined serious poems with miners' correspondence, frontier burlesque and tall tales with such polished articles as "An Epitome of Goethe's Faust," pirated novels such as Bleak House with condensed news columns called "Eastern intelligence."

From Time Magazine Archive

His latest work, History of the World in Epitome, is an eleven-page, bite-sized pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1621 Kepler published the second part of his Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Although Regiomontanus died in 1476, the Epitome was not published for another twenty years, when it set the young Copernicus thinking.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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