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Definition of Summist
1. n. One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.
Definition of Summist
1. Noun. One who sums up or writes a summary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Summist
1. a writer of summae [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summist
Literary usage of Summist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Office and Duty of Executors by Thomas Wentworth, Henry Curson, Henry Jeremy (1829)
"... saith the summist; sed non propter leva, saith he, et si graves, ... for that
it is not by the summist made material, or (a) A man made a feoffment to ..."
2. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
"The substantive summist, omitted by Dr. Johnson, is given by Archdeacon Todd,
who tells us it ... Subjoined are a few references for summist, which is not a ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"This is the American usage of the phrase. summist (sum'ist), ». [= Sp. sumista, <
ML. snm mixta, < L. summa, sum: see sum* ..."
4. Papers of the American Historical Association by American Historical Association (1890)
"... and gradually brought the Church to their side, but not without opposition.
The Franciscans, especially, long stood out. Their great summist ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... allowed to this man ; which is sufficient in answer to all that ever was or
can be alledged against this trial. And the author is but a summist of the ..."
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