"summarize"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 22, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Charles C Doyle wrote:

> _summarize_ v.t.  'Convey a summary to'.  (Not in the OED)
>
> Michael Connelly, _The Fifth Witness_ (NY: Little, Brown, 2011), p. 13:  The lawyer-narrator complains of a troublesome client, ". . . she had to know every move I made, see every letter I sent and be summarized on every call I received."
>
> Presumably the construction follows the pattern of _copy_ in the sense of  'send a copy to' (OED v1:1c, from 1983).
>
Or that of _brief_ (where the noun also preceded the verb by centuries), which might be more expected here.  (I confess I read the book and didn't notice the innovation.)

LH

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