Compendium
[kəm'pendɪəm] or [kəm'pɛndɪəm]
Definition
(noun.) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Abridgment, COMPEND.
Checker: Willa
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABRIDGEMENT]
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Definition
n. a shortening or abridgment: a book or treatise containing the substance of a larger one: an epitome: an abstract.—adj. Compen′dious short: concise: comprehensive.—adv. Compen′diously.—n. Compen′diousness.
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Examples
- This compendium of all the old Roman virtues died at an advanced age, respected and feared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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