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summa
[ soom-uh, suhm-uh ]
noun
- a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject.
- a work or series of works that is a summary of all human knowledge.
summa
/ ˈ²õÊŠ³¾É‘Ë /
noun
- medieval Christianity theol a compendium of theology, philosophy, or canon law, or sometimes of all three together. The Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, written between 1265 and 1274, was the most famous of all such compendia
- rare.a comprehensive work or survey
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
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Michael Bernstein, a spokesman for Summa Health, a hospital system in Akron, said it received 15 patients, including 13 people who had injuries that were not life-threatening.
The Summit County Sheriff’s Office said Jason Lyle Conrad was being removed from a transport van at Summa Health White Pond Medical Center in Akron when he somehow removed the boot and ran off around 8 a.m.
The second set of kylix fragments came from Summa Gallery, a Los Angeles dealership in which Hecht had partnered with Bruce McNall, a colorful U.S. businessman.
He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica.â€
Just 52, Siddhartha Mukherjee has checked off the summa boxes, kindling envy in the hearts and minds of lesser mortals, i.e., the rest of us.
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