† summistern.
Obsolete. rare.
= summist n. 1, 2.
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abbreviator1529
abridger1555
summarist1577
summister1577
summulary1580
summer-up1599
summist1602
breviate-maker1611
epitomist1611
epitomizer1615
barber1616
breviarist1621
epitomator1621
summulist1635
abbreviarist1679
breviator1679
compendiarist1679
compendiator1679
curtailer1724
literator1785
summarizer1861
condenser1868
trimmer1876
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 76/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I If the historian be long, hee is accompted a trifler: if he be short, he is taken for a summister.
1598 Meane in Spending sig. G2v And thus, though rudely, haue I plaid the Summister.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019).
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