A sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory.
1The following precis, though imperfect, will give some idea of the correspondence:
2You may have heard of them but here is a precis.
3In any case the precis begins with these illuminating sentences:
4In precis, they make more mistakes if they get very cold, or very hot.
5It is known by a variety of terms-summingup, resume, epitome, review, precis, condensation.
6Ultimately it is irreducible to precis or paraphrase.
7Now, sir, here is a precis of evidence, nearly complete, written out clearly by Sergeant Coombes.
8The precis begins in a curious way.
9Here's a quick precis, with no spoilers.
10I just wish I knew which ones they were. Which, unfortunately, was a perfect precis of the situation.
11Cain gives an interesting precis of how our view of one another has changed since the early 1900s.
12Joshua had finished reading the precis.
13However, there should also be a precis or interpretation, written for the people and designed to capture the imagination.
14The article did not commend itself to him, save as the means of making a precis of the case.
15The shootout was low on quality and heavy on nerves, which was a neat precis of what had gone before.