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Definition of Compendious

Compendious
Compendious Com*pen"di*ous, a. [L. compendiosus.] Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and expeditious ways. --Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. --Sir T. Elyot. Syn: Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise.

Meaning of Compendious from wikipedia

- Al-Jabr (Arabic: الجبر), also known as The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة...
- compenso means balance, poise, weigh, offset. The entry on the word 'compendious' in the Online Etymology Dictionary says "concise, abridged but comprehensive"...
- Incorporated, in 1982. In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster started two decades...
- on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018. l.l.b, charles mayo (1804). a compendious view of universal history. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018...
- it as the title of a treatise on algebra, also known by the name The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. The word entered the...
- po****rizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),: 171  presented the...
- syrische Grammatik. Leipzig: T.O. Weigel. [translated to English as Compendious Syriac Grammar, by James A. Crichton. London: Williams & Norgate 1904...
- (1837). "Durham". Northern Circuit. The Family Topographer: Being a Compendious Account of the ... Counties of England. Vol. 6. London: J.B. Nichols...
- Press. p. 387. and in English at Payne Smith, J. (Jessie) (1903). A Compendious Syriac Dictionary: Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith...
- Crown is "a useful and convenient means of conveying, in a word, the compendious formal, executive and administrative powers and apparatus attendant upon...