Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.
Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.
A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.