And novels commonly brandished subtitles, often in the form of a brief précis or suggestion of the book's theme or moral stance.

She gave a brief precis of the fighting, leaving out her own exploits and the source of her information.

So as to make it easier to locate a particular passage, each chapter was headed by a brief precis of its contents with verse numbers.

If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief précis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about.

In this brief precis of object relations theory I have started from the proposition that good objects are remembered and bad ones only hidden in the unconscious.

He murmured apologetically: "I like to make a brief precis of the facts as I go along.

I've been giving your First Sergeant and XO a brief précis of the local conditions.

Gregor gave him a brief precis of Illyan's breakdown, minus most of the harrowing details supplied by Galeni.

Even today there's a lot to read through so here's a brief precis of the initial revelations:

A brief precis of Aesop's fable literature then follows in the next three stanzas with a stark view of its purposes and some comments on how animal behaviour and human nature compare.