adj.
- Presenting the substance in a condensed form; concise: a summary review.
- Performed speedily and without ceremony: summary justice; a summary rejection.
A presentation of the substance of a body of material in a condensed form or by reducing it to its main points; an abstract.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin summārius, of or concerning the sum, from Latin summa, sum. See sum.]
summarily sum·mar'i·ly (sə-mĕr'ə-lē) adv.summariness sum'ma·ri·ness n.
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