Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Formed into a sum; reduced into a few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts. 2. (a.) Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance. 3. (n.) A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

Multi-Version Concordance Summary (2 Occurrences) Hebrews 8:1 Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking is, We have such a one high priest who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens; (DBY) Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed; then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. (See NAS)