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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Epitome \E*pit"o*me\, n.; pl. {Epitomes}. [L., fr. Gr. ? a
     surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. ? to cut into,
     cut short; 'epi` upon + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. ['e]pitome.
     See {Tome}.]
     1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced
        within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a
        brief summary; an abridgement.
  
              [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
                                                    --Sydney
                                                    Smith.
  
     2. A compact or condensed representation of anything.
  
              An epitome of English fashionable life. --Carlyle.
  
              A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but
              all mankind's epitome.                --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis;
          abbreviature. See {Abridgment}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  epitome
       n 1: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good
            breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the
            good father" [syn: {prototype}, {paradigm}, {image}]
       2: a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

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