EPIT'OMIZE, verb transitive To shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to abstract, in a summary, the principal matters of a book; to contract into a narrower compass. Xiphilin epitomized Dion's Roman History. 1. To diminish; to curtail. [Less proper.]
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