compendium
noun
a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise.
compend
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a variation of
compendium.
Example Sentences
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For the annals of England, the Short History of England by J. R. Green is a most excellent compend.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
He further urges the diversion of turbid rills, after rains, over grass lands, and altogether makes a better compend of this branch of the subject than can be found in the Roman writers proper.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
The knowledge then of Jesus Christ is a true and full compend of all saving knowledge.
From Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life by John (of Wamphray) Brown
He's such a compend of beauties, meseems, indeed, from him The world all beauty borrows that lives in lands and seas.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
