bell notificationshomepageloginedit profileclubsdmBox

Search word meanings:

Word Meanings - COMPENDIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To sum or collect together. Bp. King.

Related words: (words related to COMPENDIATE)

  • COLLECTIVENESS
    A state of union; mass.
  • COLLECTEDLY
    Composedly; coolly.
  • COLLECTIBLE
    Capable of being collected.
  • COLLECTIVISM
    The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
  • COLLECTIVELY
    In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
  • COLLECTORATE
    The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
  • COLLECTEDNESS
    A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
  • COLLECTANEA
    Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
  • TOGETHER
    togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
  • COLLECTIVE
    Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, juri, etc. 4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point,
  • COLLECTOR
    An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts
  • COLLECT
    together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone
  • COLLECTIVIST
    An advocate of collectivism. -- a.
  • COLLECTORSHIP
    The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
  • COLLECTED
    1. Gathered together. 2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.
  • COLLECTIVITY
    1. Quality or state of being collective. 2. The collective sum. aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state. The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle
  • COLLECTION
    1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
  • COLLECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
  • MISRECOLLECT
    To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
  • MISRECOLLECTION
    Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
  • RE-COLLECT
    To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.
  • RECOLLECTION
    1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
  • ALTOGETHER
    1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
  • RECOLLECT
    1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. 2. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect
  • RECOLLECTIVE
    Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster.

 

Back to top