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† ˈsummity Obs. or arch.
Forms: 5–7 summitie, (5 summite(e, -yt(i)e, sumite, 6 sumitie, summitye, sommitie, 8 erron. sumnity), 7–9 summity.
[a. OF. sommet(t)e, summite (mod.F. sommité) = It. sommità, Sp. sumidad, Pg. summidade, ad. late L. summitās, -ātem, f. summus highest, the top of (see sum n.1).]
1. The topmost part, top; = summit n. 1.
1375Barbour Bruce iii. 706 Quhilum sum wald be Rycht on the wawys summite [edd. 1620, 1670 summitie]. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 240 Sette hem [sc. seeds] myddel depe in drie Lond and in weet lond in the summyte [v.r. summitee] Aboue. 1571Digges Pantom. i. xiv. E j, The very summitie or vpmost parte of the thing to be measured. 1574Newton Health Mag. 31 The Creame or thicke Summitie of Milke. 1585Daniel Paulus Iouius To Rdr., Wks. (Grosart) IV. 3 On the sommitie of some high Piller. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 132/2 A qu. of an ownce of redd Roses of the supernalle summityes therof. 1602Plat Delightes for Ladies ii. xi, The oyle..fleeting on the top or summity of your water. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 165 St. John the Baptist and other religious Ascetics were Feeders on the Summities and Tops of Plants. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 9 The Key-stone, is that which is the very sumnity, or top of the Arch. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Baroscope, The Summity of the Tube is for a Space void of Quicksilver.
2. The topmost point or ridge of a mountain or hill; = summit n. 2.
c1400Sc. Trojan War ii. 1665 Frome hicht of þe sumiteis Descendand amongis þe waleis. c1425Wyntoun Cron. i. (Wemyss) xi. 972 One est half fra þe Egipt se, Sa rynnand in till summytie. 1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. ii. 90 The summities..and other places of aduantage. 1631May tr. Barclay's Mirr. Mindes i. 37 Vpon the summity of the high hill, is a flat of great circuit. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece ii. ii. (1715) 185 Cyrus..sacrificeth..upon the Summities of Mountains. 1704Swift Batt. Bks. 237 The War..between the Learned, about the higher Summity of Parnassus. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. I. 62 When we reach'd the Summities where we hoped to find very uncommon things, we were forc'd to give over our design by the Fog and Snow.
transf.1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory 95 Whither should this Eagle flie, but to the summity of the world?
3. fig. The highest point or degree; = summit n. 3: also in particularized use.
In quot. 1862 prob. after F. sommités sociales.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 92 Plato and Aristotle in the Summitie of their Ethicall..and Metaphysicall Idees, haue displaied some such philosophicall quiddities. 1600G. Abbot Jonah 125 When a man groweth to the summitie of such malice against himselfe as that natural affection..is quite exiled out of memory. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv. rule 2 §34 There are summities and principalities of probation proportionable to the ages and capacities of men and women. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §18. 18 Immaterial or Incorporeal Substance; the Head and Summity whereof is a Deity distinct from the World. 1709J. Johnson Clerg. Vade M. ii. p. lxix, They are not in the summity of the Priesthood. 1862T. A. Trollope Marietta I. iv. 80 In making his approaches towards the social summities.
b. A person or thing that is at the head of a body, line, series, etc.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 2 Lysis and Philolaus, call it [sc. the supreme deity]..a summity of the greatest or smallest number. 1655M. Casaubon Treat. Enthus. iii. (1656) 153 When once ascended to the Summities, or Originall Firsts, we can go no further. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 130 The two chief summities of this Sacerdotal Hierarchy, the two Patriarchates of Rome and Constantinople. 1685― Paralip. Prophet. xlii. 361 So soon as they were two Summities or Preeminences Ecclesiastical. |