v. [f. SUMMARY + -IZE.] trans. To make (or constitute) a summary of; to sum up; to state briefly or succinctly.
1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, 5. These, and all such illustrations, may be summarised for convenience sake in the following mnemonic formula.
1881. Sir W. Thomson, in Nature, XXIV. 434/1. We may summarise the natural sources of energy as Tides, Food, Fuel, Wind, and Rain.
1882. Farrar, Early Chr., I. xiii. 276. The four words of St. John, ‘The Word became flesh,’… summarise and concentrate the inmost meaning of the Old Testament revelation.
1885. Phillips’ Man. Geol., I. xxv. 526. If we endeavour to summarise the conclusions.
absol. 1889. Daily News, 10 Dec., 7/6. Assistant Sub-Editor.—Smart young fellow who can summarise attractively.
Hence Summarized ppl. a., Summarizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; Summarizer = SUMMARIST.
1883. Athenæum, 7 April, 441/3. An admirable piece of summarized history. Ibid. (1886), 5 June, 739/3. Then follow two pages of rapid summarizing of the mediæval narrative.
1894. Sat. Rev., 17 March, 287/2. Mr. Ward is quite a model summarizer.
1910. A. H. T. Clarke, in 19th Cent., Oct., 682. Nothing, in short, comes amiss to his [Gibbon’s] summarising genius.
