epitomise

Verb

epitomize (third-person singular simple present epitomizes, present participle epitomizing, simple past and past participle epitomized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
   • This simple formula epitomizes the kind of 'tolerance' that Marcuse advocates.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To be an epitome of.
   • The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.1997, Michael Moortgat, “Categorial Type Logics”, in J. van Benthem, A. ter Meulen, editors, Handbook of Logic and Language, page 99