A short and compendious book. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a compendious history of the world. From Dictionary.com.
Or duh, compendious doesn't mean comprehensive at all. From Wordnik.com. [Refudiate? Repudiate? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off] Reference
Homilie and Epistles attributed to Alfric: and a compendious. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850] Reference
Great Britain; with a compendious the World. hiſtory of England. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
If any one would adopt a compendious method, let him only contemplate. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
The cheaper and more compendious histories of course are not affected. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
It is possessed by the twice-born both in detailed and compendious forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
It was the compendious history of the ships which be took down and opened. From Wordnik.com. [Starways]
To be brief and compendious on this book, it appears to be a heart unveiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Strangely enough, there is nothing on Silcher in Hobert Eitner's compendious. From Wordnik.com. [Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei] Reference
It thus gives a compendious history of editorial judgment on all disputed points. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
"A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.". From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
If the marquetry of The Kasidah compares but feebly with the compendious splendours of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
This lecture comprises a compendious history of modern art; commencing with Massaccio. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
For purposes of general convenience they admit of a much more compendious mode of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
And, therefore, the larger your anticipation is, the more direct and compendious is your search. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
The Sorites is the neatest and most compendious form that can be assumed by a train of reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The main facts of C. Iulius C.esar's life are found in a compendious form in the Life by Suetonius. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
To the critic of the schools, ever ready with compendious label, he is the revolutionary destructive. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
Nor is he mentioned in such compendious works on the nineteenth century as those by Gottschall, R.M. M.yer. From Wordnik.com. [Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei] Reference
Combined with DoubleClick, Google could create an ever more compendious record of what users do on the Web. From Wordnik.com. [The Microsofting of Google] Reference
French, or even than the English, which, by reason of its monosyllables, is far the most compendious of them. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
If to excellence and happiness there be any one way more compendious than another, next to friendship with the. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Afterwards they found out the more compendious ways of making one character stand in place of several strokes or points. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley] Reference
For anyone who feels Ninja Tune has lost its edge of late, this is a compendious and compelling argument to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [Various Artists: Ninja Tune XX] Reference
"Well, my mobile will not blow you up," she retorted, extracting a rainbow-coloured version from her compendious carry-bag. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
Southey and Cottle's edition is very compendious so far as matter goes, and contains much that is printed for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Again, I propose, when I speak of literature, to mean literature, and not a compendious term for anything that is not science. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
And with his name it is a pleasure to associate in one compendious acknowledgement the names of Dr. Henry Bradley and Mr. Percy Simpson. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
By which compendious way all the contagion that foreign books can infuse will find a passage to the people far easier and shorter than an. From Wordnik.com. [Areopagitica] Reference
The hearing was a follow-up to a lengthy investigation of health insurers that had recently been summarized in a compendious House report. From Wordnik.com. ["The horror, the horror" -- Health Insurance CEOs Testify in Congress] Reference
Like legal literature, religious literature has long been given over to compendious rulemaking and hairsplitting over contingencies, reasonable exceptions and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Right And Wrong In Washington] Reference
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