<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements</li><li>Synonyms: précis, outline</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>brief and comprehensive; concise</li><li>Synonyms: succinct, compact, condensed, short</li><li>direct and prompt; unceremoniously fast: to treat someone with summary dispatch</li><li>Synonyms: brusque, terse, curt</li><li>(of legal proceedings, jurisdiction, etc.) conducted without, or exempt from, the various steps and delays of a formal trial</li></ul>