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‖ précis, n.|ˈpreɪsɪ|
[F. (presi), n. use of précis adj., cut short, condensed, precise.]
A concise or abridged statement; a summary; an abstract.
1760Chesterfield Let to Bp. Chenevix 29 Apr., I hope you have seen Voltaire's précis of it in verse. 1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 165/1 Take with you, if you please, this précis of its exploits: eleven hundred men, commanded by a soldier raised from the ranks, put to rout a select army of 6000 men, commanded by General Lake. 1870M. A. Lower Hist. Sussex II. 90 The arguments are too lengthened for even a précis here. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 22 June 456/2 The article is so compact as to read in parts almost like a précis.
b. The action or practice of précis-writing.
1886in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.
c. attrib. and Comb., as précis report, précis-writer, précis-writing.
1809G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 406 Précis-writer under his Lordship when Secretary of State. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary II. 431 To transmit home an historical précis detail of the operations. 1880Print. Trades Jrnl. xxx. 8 The references..may be cited as the very perfection of précis writing.
Hence précis v. trans., to make a précis of; to abstract, summarize; précised |ˈpreɪsiːd| ppl. a.
1856Ld. Canning Let. 2 Apr. in E. Fitzmaurice Life 2nd Earl Granville (1905) I. vii. 152 The lucid..way in which a heavy case is précis'd is admirable. 1863Pinkerton in N. & Q. 3rd Ser. III. 181/1 The labour of..precising in a calendrical form such a vast chaos of documents may be readily imagined. 1889Official Notes Home Dept. India on Adulteration Food, The replies to the circular letter will be found fully précised in the notes prefixed to the municipal proceedings. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 30 July 18/4 The main work of the Canadian War Records, that of compiling and precising the all-important diaries and appendices is, of course, in arrears. 1964P. Mackesy War for Amer. ii. 60 The Ministerial viewpoint on the prospects offered by the advance from Canada is précised in CO 5/253, ff. 21–30. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Jan. 14/1 The new book Parsons on the Plains..is actually three books precis'd down and contained in one volume. 1977C. Husband in H. Giles Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations ix. 223 Headlines, as precised news values, represent an expression of ‘constructed reality’. |