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
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
Ah, the duet between Raoul and Valentine, that pathetic love-song for two voices, that strain so full of crescendos, stringendos, and piu crescendos--all this, sung slowly, compendiously, interminably!
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne
What he calls a law of Nature is only an induction from observed phenomena, a formula which serves compendiously to express them.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
Jubal in short originates what we now compendiously describe as the Fine Arts.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
