A concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

Usage examples of compendium.

His hope with regard to his fame from these works was fulfilled, for they were printed as late as 1515 at Leyden, and Sprengel declared them the best compendium of simple remedies and diet that we have from the Arabian times.

There, amid a fabulous fetishistic compendium of Belle Epoque embroidered underclothes, he at last smelled the rearrangement going on in me.

World State of the Modern Utopist will, in its economic aspect, be a compendium of established economic experience, about which individual enterprise will be continually experimenting, either to fail and pass, or to succeed and at last become incorporated with the undying organism of the World State.

The Compendium of Human Knowledge, the knowledge of the ages crammed into one volume, two thousand pages.

Petersburg, 1892, which, apart from its theoretical value, is a rich compendium of data relative to this subject.

Her hair, cut short, was that compendium of gold and silver achieved only when nature has been aided by an expensive hairdresser.

The general title of such a compendium being Tabulas Mortem, Lists of the Dead.

By another coincidence, Allan Asherman of DC Comics, who had put together The Star Trek Compendium, had a copy of the outline.

He is hero, saint, scholar, gentleman, athlete, pugilist, navigator, physiologist, botanist, blacksmith and carpenter all rolled into one, the sort of compendium of all the talents that Reade honestly imagined to be the normal product of an English university.

Sorcerers: A Biographical Compendium, published in 1784, wondering if the author had tried to make the summaries boring.

Of course the bookcase held a few school manuals and compendiums, and one of Mr.

He died at the age of fifty, and is regarded by posterity as a Stoic philosopher, a scholar, and a compendium of all the virtues.

If you prevent people making profit out of their children—and every civilised State—even that compendium of old-fashioned Individualism, the United States of America—is now disposed to admit the necessity of that prohibition—and if you provide for the aged instead of leaving them to their children's sense of duty, the practical inducements to parentage, except among very wealthy people, are greatly reduced.

Parts of this knowledge had been excerpted, appended to the older compendia of our Temple’s lore.

That is not however the law as is obvious in the case of maps or compendia, where later works will necessarily be anticipated.