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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Temperatures in 2025 The announcement about the assessment comes days after March temperature summaries showed warmer than normal temperatures across much of the world.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2025
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This information is not a complete summary and does not constitute a recommendation.—
Andrew Sukhin,
Forbes.com,
29 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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These plans, however, do not appear in the outline.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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The enormous outline was silhouetted against the purpling sky like a mountain.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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“Breviary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breviary. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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