[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who writes an epitome.
1611. Bible, Transl. Pref., 2. An Epitomist, that is, one that extinguished worthy whole volumes, to bring his abridgements into request.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., I. Wks. (1851), 22. Britomartus, whom the Epitomist Florus and others mention.
1880. Muirhead, trans. Instit. Gaius, Introd. 15. The design of the epitomist … having been to exclude what had become obsolete.
