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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. épitome. 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.

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.

E*pit"o*mist (?), n. One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

E*pit"o*mize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Epitomized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Epitomizing.] 1. To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

2. To diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words. [Obs.] Addison.

E*pit"o*mi`zer (?), n. An epitomist. Burton.

Ep"i*trite (?), n. [Gr. &?; containing an integer and one third (i. e., , or in the ratio of 4 to 3); 'epi` upon, over + &?; the third: cf. L. epitritos, F. épitrite.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

It is so called from being compounded of a spondee (which contains 4 times) with an iambus or a trochee (which contains 3 times). It is called 1st, 2d, 3d, or 4th epitrite according as the short syllable stands 1st, 2d, etc.

||Ep`i*troch"le*a (?), n. [NL. See Epi-, and Trochlea.] (Anat.) A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

Ep`i*troch"le*ar (?), a. Relating to the epitrochlea.

Ep`i*tro"choid (?), n. [Pref. epi- + Gr. &?; wheel + -oid.] (Geom.) A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid.

||E*pit"ro*pe (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; reference, arbitration, fr. &?; to turn over, to give up, yield; 'epi` upon, over + &?; to turn.] (Rhet.) A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."

||Ep`i*zeux"is (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; a fastening together, repetition, fr. &?; to fasten to or upon; 'epi` upon + &?; to join, yoke.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -

Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.

Coleridge.

Ep`i*zo"an (?), n. (Zoöl.) An epizoön.

Ep`i*zo"ic (?), a. (Zoöl.) Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

||Ep`i*zo"ön (?), n.; pl. Epizoa (#). [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + zw^,on animal.] (Zoöl.) One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

Ep`i*zo*öt"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. épizoötique.] 1. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to an epizoön.

2. (Geol.) Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like. [Obs.]

Epizoötic mountains are of secondary formation.