compendiously

• “If he refuses to listen to the lecture and goes on the war path, then, unpleasantly for me, I assure you, I shall be compelled to thrash him and his village, first: and, next, I shall triple the fine he must pay and lecture the law into him a trifle more compendiously.”

  CHAPTER XXIV

• “Or, to put the matter compendiously, Agesilaus exulted in hard work: indolence he utterly repudiated.”

  Agesilaus

• “Also because [949] Wecker, [950] Melancthon, [951] Fernelius, [952] Fuschius, and those tedious Tracts de Anima (which have more compendiously handled and written of this matter,) are not at all times ready to be had, to give them some small taste, or notice of the rest, let this epitome suffice.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “What of this, since, to put it compendiously, there is nothing serviceable to the life of man worth speaking of but owes its fabrication to fire?”

  Memorabilia

• “And to speak compendiously, if it were obvious in each department that the introducer of any salutary measure whatsoever will not remain unhonoured, that in itself will stimulate a host of pople who will make it their business to discover some good thing or other for the state.”

  Hiero

• “I speak of the issue of marriage and the complex set of issues sometimes referred to compendiously as “bioethics.””

  Archive 2007-08-01

• “And to us two youngsters as we walked along the cinder path beside the rutted road and argued out our perplexities, it seemed that this ridge gave us compendiously a view of our whole world.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “Comte's philosophy in practice, might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.”

  Archive 2005-01-01

• “Ireland: in euery of which there are seuerall principalities, dukedomes, earledomes, prouinces and countreys: which being seuerally expressed would enlarge much our stile, and make it of great length: which by our progenitours hath not bene vsed: notwithstanding, we thinke it no dishonour to vs, compendiously to abridge the same in all our writings and letters written to what”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “That the latter manner of search (which is all) they pass over compendiously and slightly as a by-matter.”

  Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature

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