epitomisers

Updated: May 26, 2025

These are fields in which something may always be found by the gleaner, and therefore those general collections in which the works are curtailed would be to be reprobated, even if epitomisers did not seem to possess a certain instinct of generic doltishness which leads them curiously to omit whatever ought especially to be preserved. Sir Thomas More.

Robert Southey - Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

The civil law of Rome, as drawn up first by the epitomisers and later studied more carefully at Bologna, served to indicate general principles in cases to which canon law did not apply; but there was little jurisdiction in which the powers ecclesiastical could not contrive to take a hand. At the same time Germanic ideals and customs continued a powerful force.

Eugene Arthur Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights: From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference: to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With: Additions.