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▪ I. compend, n.|ˈkɒmpənd|
[ad. L. compend-ium: see below. Cf. stipend.]
= compendium.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1885) 41 Of the Sey calfes..the cause of this our compend, permitis vs nocht copiouslie to expone. 1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. 327, I would principally advise..that Youth beware of compends and abridgements. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 526 A compend or syllabus of their lectures. 1833Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 123 The Compend of Aldrich..has furnished, for above a Century, the little all of Logic doled out..by the University of Bradwardin and Scotus. 1881W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jew. Ch. 11 The sort of theology of which the Westminster Confession and the Thirty-nine Articles are compends.
b. transf. and fig.
1642Declar. Lords & Com., To Gen. Assemb. Ch. Scot. 4 The compend of all calamities. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 416 He shewed..vineyards, and fields that were near, as a compend of the whole. 1882J. Payne 1001 Nights I. 182 He's such a compend of beauties.
▪ II. comˈpend, v. nonce-wd.
to narrate briefly.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxiii. 345 We shall the warlikenesse compend of those fame-wronged Men. |