单词 | summer-up |
释义 | summer-upn. A person who or thing which summarizes. Also occasionally (colloquial or regional): a person who does sums, an arithmetician. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > summarizing > one who summarizes summer-up1599 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging > one who 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 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. 5/1 Acaudaladór,..a summer vp, a bringer to a head. 1620 R. Brathwait Ess. Fiue Senses 91 I resolue..to make the Euening the summer vp of the day and morning. 1643 K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici 50 This last great day (the summer up of all past dayes). 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iii. 29 That aptitude..which made him so skilful a summer-up of arguments. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 140 A summer-up of the tottle of the whole. 1882 Baily's Monthly Mag. Jan. 217 He had started to ‘sum up’ in the great Maxweltown murder case. He was a capital ‘summer up’, they used to say, but he wintered down very badly that afternoon. 1960 J. Bayley Characters of Love iii. 130 Here the confident summer-up of Othello might become a little uneasy. 2009 Independent 20 Nov. (Arts & Bks. section) 32/1 At her scintillating best, she is both a brilliant encapsulator and shrewd summer-up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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