compend
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Noun[edit]
compend (plural compends)
- A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- […] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Further reading[edit]
- compend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- compend in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- compend at OneLook Dictionary Search
