as in summary
a short statement of the main points
a speech that could serve as a breviary for impeachment
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Recent Examples of breviary
Books of Hours are breviaries, or a selection of prayers and psalms taken from long prayer books used by monks.
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Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
In the breviary-like Logia of Yeshua, Davenport and his coauthor, Benjamin Urrutia, assembled everything reportedly spoken by Jesus.
—Michael Dirda, National Review, 25 July 2019
Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
In the breviary-like Logia of Yeshua, Davenport and his coauthor, Benjamin Urrutia, assembled everything reportedly spoken by Jesus.
—Michael Dirda, National Review, 25 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breviary
Noun
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Write your summary like a human, not a corporation.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The subtleties of Baer’s composition in relationship to the flanks defy easy summary.—
Sarah K. Rich,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Rabelais points out that there are oddities in the world that cannot fit into any classification scheme, more things in our heaven and earth than are dreamt of in either the medieval pretensions of the summa or the ambitious early modern bibliographic machines.—
Brendan Fitzgerald,
Longreads,
27 Dec. 2024
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The stage was set for the Fourth, whose five movements add up to a summa of Bartók’s art, by turns tenaciously labored, sinuously swirling, nocturnally eerie, pizzicato-punchy, and flat-out wild.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2024
Noun
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As Pagels portrays them, the evangelists were men of creative genius, using their defense of Jesus as an occasion to draft the outlines of a new world religion.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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But the device is shrouded in shadow, revealing only two joysticks and the outline of the central screen.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Breviary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breviary. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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