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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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
As the revelation did not consist in doctrines, so the doctrine we require is not a creed or compend of doctrines.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst
Well, then, prayer is, as it were, a compend and sum of all duties; it contains in it, faith, love, repentance; all these should breathe out in prayer.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
It is hoped that the continued demand for this compend means a widening interest in the study of diseases of the skin, sufficiently keen as to lead to the desire for a still greater knowledge.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Instead of an unsatisfactory compend, especially of subjects concerning which there are great differences of opinion, and considerable warmth of feeling, useful tables of important events are furnished in the Appendix.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
