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compendious, a.|kəmˈpɛndɪəs|
[a. Anglo-F. *compendious = OF. compendieux, ad. L. compendiōs-us advantageous, abridged, brief, f. compendi-um: see below and -ous.]
1. Containing the substance within small compass, concise, succinct, summary; comprehensive though brief; esp. of literary works; also of their authors.
1388Wyclif Pref. Ep. Jerome 73 Seuen epistlis, as wel goostly and mystik as compendiouse. c1400Apol. Loll. 75 Þe newe lawe, compendiosar & more complet & more profitablar þan ani oþer lawe. c1425Metr. Pref. Hampole's Psalter 43 Compendyous short gode & profetebul To mannys soule. c1460Stans Puer ad Mensam 94 in Rel. Ant. I. 158 Thof that thu be compendious of sentence. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Mann. (1570) A j, This litle treatise in stile compendious. 1570R. Ascham Scholem. (Arb.) 82. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. vi. §1 Man..an extract or compendious image of the world. 1677Hale Contempl. ii. 9 It is a Compendious Prayer, and contains much in little. 1774T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. 8 A compendious analysis of the chapters which form this..compilation. 1842Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. ii. (1878) 136 Any cheap or compendious helps for the study.
†2. Of a way, method, or process: That saves time or space, expeditious, not circuitous, direct; summary. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 28 He þat will go first to Babilon By anoþer way mare compendious þan I hafe tald off. 1602Carew Cornwall (1723) 143 A way not so safe as compendious, when the tyde is out. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. v. (1676) 412/1, I think the most compendious cure for some of them at least, had been in Bedlam. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. iii. 58 This compendious passage betwixt Egypt and Canaan. a1688Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Poems (1775) 141 The compendious art to lye and cheat. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 105 A compendious way for thickning of Copses. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 504 The most compendious passage to the shades below.
†b. Economical. Obs. Cf. compendium 3.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iv. ii. 59 The divell avoideth superfluitie as much as he may..If the divell were so compendious, what should he need to use such circumstances as to make, etc.
†c. Profitable. Obs.—0
1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Compendious, short, profitable. 1656Blount Glossogr., Compendious, very profitable. |