Word Meanings - COMPEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A compendium; an epitome; a summary. A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet.

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• EPITOME
  1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith. 2. A compact or condensed
• MOSAICAL
  Mosaic . "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.
• COMPENDIUM
  A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts. Syn.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• COMPENDIARIOUS
  Short; compendious. Bailey.
• COMPEND
  A compendium; an epitome; a summary. A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet.
• COMPENDIOUS
  Containing the substance oe general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it
• COMPENDIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being compendious.
• COMPENDIOUSLY
  In a compendious manner. Compendiously exressed by the word chaos. Bentley.
• MOSAICALLY
  In the manner of a mosaic.
• COMPENDIATE
  To sum or collect together. Bp. King.
• BURNETTIZE
  To subject to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a process invented by Sir William Burnett.
• RECAPITULATION
  The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
• SUMMARY
  1. Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts. 2. Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary