summistn.

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. I.iiij^v in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes Neyther is there so moche hurte in the texte it selfe, as afterwards the Summists [L. Summistae] haue fayned to it.

?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig. Pvii An infynyte table of sophisters and scole doctours.., of sentencyoners and summystes.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr viii. 229 Those examples, which Carbo a good Summist alleages.

1712 T. Bray Papal Usurpation & Persecution i. iii. 14/1 That vast Power and Jurisdiction over Kings, which the Canonists, Jesuits, Schoolmen, Casuists, Summists, and their greatest Writers generally give them.

1819 T. McCrie Life Melville I. iii. 99 The barbarous latin of summists and commentators.

1999 Renaissance Q. 52 868 Guided by Aquinas, and relying heavily on John of Freiburg, Antoninus [of Florence] drew on a wide array of canonists and summists.

1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 110 An od conceit I haue of the Iesuits perfection..moues me to place the Generall loco summi generis as a Summist of all the rest.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Summist or Summulist, one that writes sums or briefs upon any subject; an Abridger.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. viii. §17. 594 The Author is but a Summist of the Libel upon this Head.

1654 H. Cogan tr. G. Lunadoro in Court of Rome 80 There is the Summist [It. Sommista], who hath one of each of the said Offices of the said Court in his Gift; he is now a Cardinall, and the Office is worth thirty thousand crownes.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Lett. written in Italy xv. 29 in tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. v. That Apartment where the Summists [Fr. les Sommistes] reside.