A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations.

A person who makes an abridgement; a summarizer, a compiler. Also: a person who or thing which curtails or reduces something.

A person who compiles a summary treatise; a person who gives a summary.

= summist, n. 1 2.

A summulist (in either sense of summulist, n.).

A person who or thing which summarizes. Also occasionally (colloquial or regional): a person who does sums, an arithmetician.

A person who makes an abridgement, a summarizer. Also: an abridgement, an epitome, a summary. Obsolete.

One who writes an epitome.

One who epitomizes; in the senses of the verb.

figurative. One who clips or cuts short; a curtailer.

One who writes a breviary or abstract.

One who writes an epitome of a larger work.

(a) A student, teacher, or adherent of the Summulae Logicales, a standard textbook on Aristotelian logic written by Petrus Hispanus in the 13th cent…

A person who makes an abridgement or compendium; = abbreviator, n. 1. Cf. breviarist, n.

One who makes summaries or abstracts; also = abbreviator, n. 2.

A maker of compendiums.

one who compendiates.

One who curtails, shortens, abridges.

A person who summarizes or précises a text. Obsolete.

A person who gives a summary of something.

One who condenses or abridges in literature.

One who or that which cuts, clips, prunes, etc.; spec. †a barber (obsolete); also, an implement or machine for trimming edges in industrial processes.