compendious

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Another cause is, for that it is briefer & more compendious, and easier to beare away and be retained in memorie, then that which is contained in multitude of words and full of tedious ambage and long periods.

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  1. adjective Containing or stating briefly and concisely all the essentials; succinct.

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  • Most valuable to me also are your numerous references to Darwin's letters, so that the article serves as a compendious index to the five volumes, as regards this subject. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2
  • Your book is wide-ranging and compendious, so I'll confine my remarks to three topics: landscape painting, —  3quarksdaily
  • These biographies, being quite compendious, and in the main very well written, afford to busy readers a short-hand method of acquainting themselves with most of the notable writers of Britain, their personal characteristics, their relation to their contemporaries, and the quality and influence of their works. —  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
  • I am the last in the world to question his princely qualifications; but, if I might advise you, it should be to follow in preference Him whom you acknowledge to be an unerring guide; who delivered to you His ordinances with His own hand, equitable, plain, explicit, compendious, and complete; who committed no violence, who countenanced no injustice, whose compassion was without weakness, whose love was without frailty, whose life was led in humility, in purity, in beneficence, and, at the end, laid down in obedience to His Father's will Timotheus. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
  • In the Slaughter-House Cases,[134] Justice Miller suggested that it was to be regarded as the compendious equivalent of the earlier version: "There can be but little question that the purpose of both these provisions is the same, and that the privileges and immunities intended are the same in each. —  The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
 

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin compendiōsus, from Latin compendium, a shortening; see compendium.

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  1. = French compendieux = Spanish Portuguese Italian compendioso, from Latin compendiosus, short, abridged, from compendium, a short way: see compendium.
 

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