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A person who makes an abstract of a text or document. Cf. abstracter, n. 2a.
A person who makes an abstract of a text or document. In early use also: a person who extracts or copies text from another work (cf. abstract, v.…
General attributive, as précis article, précis-writer, précis-writing, etc.