noun
definition
A summary or brief: a concise or abridged statement or view.
verb
definition
To write a précis of a work; to summarise, abridge
Examples of precis in a Sentence
The military and historical works comprise precis of the wars of Julius Caesar, Turenne and Frederick the Great.
British War Office, Précis of information concerning Zululand (1894) and Precis.
A specimen of another butterfly (Precis sesamus) which mimics the Acraea was then offered in the same manner.
The Lord's Prayer was communicated with similar solemnity in the West (traditio precis).
During the Reign of Terror he was imprisoned at St Lazare; there he began his Precis de l'histoire universelle, afterwards published in nine volumes.
In 1825 he graduated in medicine, and soon after he published with Ulisse Trelat a Precis elementaire d'hygiene.
Aulard's Histoire politique de la Revolution Francaise (Paris, 1901) is a most valuable precis of political history, based on deep knowledge and lucidly set forth, although not free from bias.
The Annales des travaux publics (1843), the Bulletin de l'industrie (1842), the Journal des beaux-arts (1858), and the Catholic Precis historiques (1852), the Protestant Chretien belge (1850), are other examples.
His Precis of the subject, published in the last-mentioned year, is a sound and careful book, far better than anything that had appeared before it, and written in a sober yet interesting style.
Hertzberg, in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopcidie, and an anonymous monograph, Precis historique de la maison imperiale des Comnenes (Amsterdam, 1784); and, for the history of the period, the works referred to under Later Roman Empire.
The Cathars of the middle ages discarded water baptism altogether as being a Jewish rite, but retained the laying on of hands with the traditio precis as sufficient initiation.