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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUM'MARY, a. [L. summa.] Reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as a summary statement of arguments or objections; a summary proceeding or process.
SUM'MARY, n. An abridged account; an abstract, abridgment or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account; as the comprehensive summary of our duty to God in the first table of the law.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: performed speedily and without formality; "a summary execution"; "summary justice" [syn: drumhead, summary]
2: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide- ranging subject" [syn: compendious, compact, succinct, summary] n
1: a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" [syn: summary, sum-up]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin summarius, from Latin summa sum Date: 15th century 1. comprehensive; especially covering the main points succinctly 2. a. done without delay or formality ; quickly executed <a summary dismissal> b. of, relating to, or using a summary proceeding <a summary trial> Synonyms: see concise • summarily adverb II. noun (plural -ries) Date: 1509 an abstract, abridgment, or compendium especially of a preceding discourse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) a brief account; an abridgement. --adj. 1 dispensing with needless details or formalities; brief (a summary account). 2 Law (of a trial etc.) without the customary legal formalities (summary justice). Phrases and idioms: summary conviction a conviction made by a judge or magistrates without a jury. summary jurisdiction the authority of a court to use summary proceedings and arrive at a judgement. summary offence an offence within the scope of a summary court. Derivatives: summarily adv. summariness n. Etymology: ME f. L summarium f. L summa SUM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Summary Sum"ma*ry, a. [Cf. F. sommaire. See Sum.] 1. Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts. 2. Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance. Syn: Short; brief; concise; compendious; succinct.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Summary Sum"ma*ry, n.; pl. Summaries. [F. sommaire, or L. summarium. See Summary, a.] A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(summaries) 1. A summary of something is a short account of it, which gives the main points but not the details. What follows is a brief summary of the process... Here's a summary of the day's news... = résumé N-COUNT: oft N of n • You use in summary to indicate that what you are about to say is a summary of what has just been said. In summary, it is my opinion that this complete treatment process was very successful. PHRASE: PHR with cl 2. Summary actions are done without delay, often when something else should have been done first or done instead. (FORMAL) It says torture and summary execution are common... ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Short, brief, concise, compendious, synoptical, succinct, laconic, curt, terse, pithy, compact, condensed. 2. Brief, rapid, quickly performed, quick. II. n. Abridgment, compend, compendium, abstract, epitome, digest, synopsis, syllabus, conspectus, sum and substance, the short and the long, résumé.

Moby Thesaurus

Spartan, abbreviated, abbreviation, abridged, abridgement, abridgment, abrupt, abstract, account, accounts, alert, apocope, aposiopestic, apt, body count, brief, brusque, capitulation, census, clipped, close, compact, compacted, compendious, compendium, compressed, compression, concise, condensation, condensed, consolidation, conspectus, contracted, copy, core, count, crisp, critique, curt, curtailment, curtal, curtate, cut, decisive, decurtate, digest, distillate, docked, drumhead, dwelling upon, elaboration, elision, ellipsis, elliptic, encapsulation, epigrammatic, epitome, epitomization, essence, expeditious, foreshortening, gist, gnomic, going over, head count, immediate, instant, instantaneous, inventory, iteration, laconic, little, low, main point, meat, nose count, outline, peremptory, perfunctory, pith, pithy, pointed, practicing, precis, prompt, pruned, punctual, quick, ready, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting, reduction, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repertory, reprint, reserved, restatement, resume, retelling, retrenchment, review, roundup, run-through, rundown, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, shortening, speedy, statement, substance, succinct, sum, sum and substance, summation, summing, summing up, summing-up, swift, syncope, synopsis, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, telescoping, terse, tight, to the point, transient, truncated, truncation