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Summist|ˈsʌmɪst|
[ad. med.L. summista, f. summa sum n.1 + -ista -ist. Cf. F. sommiste, It. sommista, Sp. sumista, Pg. summista.]
1. The author of a summa of religious doctrine, etc., e.g. Thomas Aquinas, author of Summa theologiæ, Summa contra gentiles; often used gen. of the schoolmen.
1545Bale Image Both Ch. i. (East) 117 b, An infinite rable of Sophisters & schoole doctours,..of sentencioners and summistes. 1610Donne Pseudo-m. 229 Those examples, which Carbo a good Summist alleages. 1679T. Barlow Popery 38 The Canonists, Casuists, Schoolmen, Summists, Iesuits, &c. are generally, if not universally of this opinion. 1819McCrie Life A. Melville I. iii. 99 The barbarous latin of summists and commentators. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 425/2 Hugo [of St. Victor], by the composition of his Summa Sententiarum, endeavoured to give a methodical..presentation of the content of faith, and was thus the first of the so-called Summists. 1891T. E. Bridgett Life Sir T. More 93 Summists and Masters of Sentences.
†b. An epitomizer, abridger; transf. an epitome, summary. Obs.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 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. 1705G. Bull Corrupt. Ch. Rome iii. in Lett. etc. 281 A Book..entituled, The Tax of the Apostolical Chamber or Chancery, whereby may be learned more sorts of Wickedness, than from all the Summists and the Summaries of all Vices. a1734North Exam. iii. viii. §17. (1740) 594 The Author is but a Summist of the Libel upon this Head.
2. [It. sommista.] In the Roman Curia, an official of the Apostolic Camera who had charge of the issuing of bulls. Hist.
1686J. S[ergeant] Hist. Monast. Convent. 154 The Office of Summist is of a great value, and is generally possessed by a Cardinal. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. Lett. xv. 29 That Apartment where the Summists reside. |