compendium
a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints.
Origin of compendium
1- Also com·pend [kom-pend]. /ˈkɒm pɛnd/.
Other words for compendium
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How to use compendium in a sentence
As the revelation did not consist in doctrines, so the doctrine we require is not a creed or compend of doctrines.
And Alcuin proceeded to furnish him with a compend of the scientia bene dicendi, which is Rhetoric.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorThis book was the most popular compend of saints lives in use in the later Middle Ages.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorPeter Lombard, somewhat their junior, presents its compend of accepted and partly digested theology.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn TaylorHe also made a brief and salutary theological compend, which he called the Breviloquium.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for compendium
/ (kəmˈpɛndɪəm) /
British a book containing a collection of useful hints
British a selection, esp of different games or other objects in one container
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Origin of compendium
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