summist

English

Etymology

sum +‎ -ist

Noun

summist (plural summists)

1. One who sums up or writes a summary, especially a theological compendium.
   • a. 1576, Edward Dering, lecture

     laws of the pope , giuen by Summists and Canonists

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “summist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• mutisms, summits, tsimmus