The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compendium \Com*pen"di*um\, n.; pl. E. Compendiums, L. Compendia. [L. compendium that which is weighed, saved, or shortened, a short way, fr. compendere to weigh; com- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, and cf. Compend.] 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.
A short system or compendium of a science.
--I. Watts.
Syn: See Abridgment.
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alt. (plural of compendium English) n. (plural of compendium English)
Usage examples of "compendiums".
Of course the bookcase held a few school manuals and compendiums, and one of Mr.
It will dilate itself about the brain (where there, is any) in fourteen minutes, and you immediately perceive in your head an infinite number of abstracts, summaries, compendiums, extracts, collections, medulas, excerpta quaedams, florilegias and the like, all disposed into great order, and reducible upon paper.
He gestured to the two shiny fax copies on the table, strewn, as it were, over the magazines – those large expensive compendiums of furnishings and architecture full of designer names and famous faces and advertisements for the sort of fine items which were everywhere in this very room.
He gestured to the two shiny fax copies on the table, strewn, as it were, over the magazines-those large expensive compendiums of furnishings and architecture full of designer names and famous faces and advertisements for the sort of fine items which were everywhere in this very room.
The Reagan/Bush Administration put a soft "feeler" out in September of 1983 for all American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries.
After minute inspections of the firing rooms and the disruptors themselves, both had become convinced that the tremendous mechanisms were simple enough to be quite workable, and-insane as it seemed-perfectly maintained, at least according to the metal pages of huge maintenance compendiums the priests gave them to read.