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Summary treatment   /sˈəməri trˈitmənt/   Listen
Summary treatment

noun
1.
A brief and unsympathetic rejection.  Synonym: short shrift.






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... battle of the Alma, was now to be subjected to the further pressure which these two desperate and bloody engagements implied. Great detachments of wounded were already beginning to pour in. The men, after receiving such summary treatment as could be given them at the smaller hospitals in the Crimea itself, were forthwith shipped in batches of 200 across the Black Sea to Scutari. This voyage was in normal times one of four days and a half; but the times ...
— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey



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