EPITOME

epitome. epitome, (g) the briefe copie of a booke, &c.

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epitome. Epitome, better written

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E‐pit″o‐me (?), n.; pl. Epitomes (#). [[L., fr. Gr. � a surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. � to cut into, cut short; επἴ upon + τέμνειν to cut: cf. F. épitome. See Tome.]] 1. 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. 2. A compact or condensed representation of anything.
An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden. Syn. — Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis; abbreviature. See Abridgment.