Meaning Of The Word Summa

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summa in American English
a comprehensive treatise or exposition, as by a medieval scholastic
noun: a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject

summa in British English
noun: 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

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