compendium

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This compendium is an excellent source for understanding basic alchemical concepts.

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  1. noun A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  2. noun A list or collection of various items.

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  • The workings of the minds of mystery writers may well be adequately mysterious, devious, and diabolical, but D. P. Lyle's compendium is a welcome aid to the imagination ALL POINTS BULLETIN: Detroit P.I. Ben Perkins makes his long awaited return to novel-length adventures in his tenth starring role from author Rob Kantner, in Final Fling (Hard Woods Press). —  AHMM,March2008
  • Each of the more than sixty restaurants and bars featured in this compendium was carefully chosen for its remarkable interior design. —  Refinance 2nd Mortgage
  • A number of the beautiful images in the compendium are from that ever wonderful resource Flickr. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • It must be pointed out that 74\% of the molecules in this compendium are based solely on mRNA evidence. —  PLoS Medicine: New Articles
  • This compendium is an excellent source for understanding basic alchemical concepts. —  HogwartsProfessor.com
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  1. Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French compendium = Spanish Portuguese Italian compendio, from Middle Latin compendium, an abridgment, in L. a short way, a short cut, literally a sparing, saving, that which is weighed together, from compendere, weigh together, balance, from com-, together, + pendere, weigh: see pendent. Cf. compensate.
 

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