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Another word for compendium

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Noun
      1. The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things.
      2. (Philos.) The inward nature of anything, underlying its manifestations; true substance
      3. An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.
      1. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
      2. An abstract thing, condition, idea, etc.
      3. A brief statement of the essential content of a book, article, speech, court record, etc.; summary
      1. The act of abridging or the state of being abridged.
      2. An abridged written text.
      3. An abridged form, as of a book
    See also:

    summary

    abridgment

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Sentence Examples

  • Markham, Central and South America, in Stanford's " Compendium of Geography and Travel " (London, 1901); G.

  • of Stanfords Compendium of Geography and Travel (London, 1899 and 1900).

  • A useful handbook of Swedenborg's theology is the Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg by the Rev. Samuel Warren (London, 1885).

  • Keane, in Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel (London, 1908); and W.

  • The Speculum Majus, the great compendium of all the knowledge of the middle ages, as it left the pen of Vincent, seems to have consisted of three parts only, viz.

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