compend
English
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Noun
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
- “compend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “compend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “compend”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.