summing up

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summing up - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sum \Sum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Summed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Summing.] [Cf. F. sommer, LL. summare.]
     1. To bring together into one whole; to collect into one
        amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain
        the totality of; -- usually with up.
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              The mind doth value every moment, and then the hour
              doth rather sum up the moments, than divide the day.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a
        few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
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              "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," in few words sums up
              the moral of this fable.              --L'Estrange.
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              He sums their virtues in himself alone. --Dryden.
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     3. (Falconry) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish
        with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
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              But feathered soon and fledge
              They summed their pens [wings].       --Milton.
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     Summing up, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a
        r['e]sum['e]; a summary.
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     Syn: To cast up; collect; comprise; condense; comprehend;
          compute.
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summing up - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  summing up
      n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law
           court) [syn: summation, summing up, rundown]

summing up - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SUMMING UP, practice. The act of making a speech before a court and jury, 
  after all the evidence has been heard, in favor of one of the parties in the 
  cause, is called summing up. When the judge delivers his charge to the jury, 
  he is also said to sum up the evidence in the case. 6 Harg. St. Tr. 832; 1 
  Chit. Cr. Law, 632. 
       2. In summing up, the judge should, with much precision and clearness, 
  state the issues joined between the parties, and what the jury are required 
  to find, either in the affirmative or negative. He should then state the 
  substance of the plaintiff's claim and of the defendant's ground of defence, 
  and so much of the evidence as is adduced for each party, pointing out as he 
  proceeds, to which particular question or issue it respectively applies, 
  taking care to abstain as much as possible from giving an opinion as to the 
  facts. It is his duty clearly to state the law arising in the case in such 
  terms as to leave no doubt as to his meaning, both for the purpose of 
  directing the jury, and with a view of correcting, on a review of the case 
  on a motion for a new trial, or on a writ of error, any error he may, in the 
  hurry of the trial, have committed. Vide 8 S. & R. 150; 1 S. & R. 515; 4 
  Rawle, R. 100, 195, 356; 2 Penna. R. 27; 2 S. & R. 464. Vide Charge; 
  Opinion, (Judgment.) 
  
  

summing up - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "summing up":
     account, accounts, argument, body count, capitulation, census,
     copy, count, critique, dwelling upon, elaboration, epitome,
     evidence, going over, head count, inventory, iteration, nose count,
     practicing, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital,
     reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting, rehash, rehearsal,
     reissue, reiteration, repertory, reprint, restatement, resume,
     retelling, review, statement, sum, summary, summation, summing,
     testimony