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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

- Annotated excerpt from a translation of the Compendious Book. University of Duisburg-Essen. The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing...
- compenso means balance, poise, weigh, offset. The entry on the word 'compendious' in the Online Etymology Dictionary says "concise, abridged but comprehensive"...
- seminal text "Al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-Jabr wal-Muqabala" (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), was translated into...
- 1743) was an English Latin lexicographer, and author of a well-known compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue. He was born at Wordsall, in the parish...
- pp. 561–590. Retrieved March 30, 2011. Palfrey, John Gorham (1873). A Compendious History of New England, vol. 3. Boston: H.C. Shepard. Retrieved March...
- po****rizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813 and 833 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...
- victualling office[where?]. He was the author of Clavis Calendaria; or a Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical...
- meant to represent, in Christopher Tolkien's words, "a compilation, a compendious narrative, made long afterwards from sources of great diversity (poems...
- 1144, this was the first book on alchemy to become available in Europe Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Liber algebrae et almucabola):...