Epitome

Definition of Epitome

E`pit´o`me
n.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.
[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
- Sydney Smith.
2.A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class.
An epitome of English fashionable life.
- Carlyle.
A man so various that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome.
- Dryden.

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