[ad. med.L. summulista, f. summula: see prec. and -IST.] a. A writer of a summula or small compendious treatise of a science; an abridger. b. A commentator on the Summulæ Logicales of Petrus Hispanus (13th cent.).
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 200. The allegation of Bliteri by the Summulists will be of small validity.
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., Author’s Des. a vj. We only act the part of Abridgers or Summulists.
1694. Burthogge, Reason, 50. Common Logicians and Summulists.
1865. F. G. Lee, C. Davenport’s Paraphrast. Expos., 15. Which … is a term of diminution (as the Summulists say).
