compendious
adjective
of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise.
compendiously
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a word derived from
compendious.
Example Sentences
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Or as Hedges compendiously described it: “It’s a memory play told from the perspective of the grandson about his grandmother, who loses her ability to remember things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2018
Now compendiously abridged, and made of more use; with very considerable Improvements.
From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Samuel Felton
Consequently he must first prepare his thoughts, and then pick out, from Virgil, Horace, Ovid, or perhaps more compendiously from his Gradus, halves and quarters of lines, in which to embody them.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Those who class all mankind compendiously and comfortably under the two exhaustive species of saints and villains, may consider such a description garbled and impossible.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
What passed at Orvieto was thus afterwards compendiously related by Henry in a published statement of his case.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
