conspectus

• Prof Khoo took the attendees on a broad conspectus of the aspirations of the Chinese community in the Straits Settlements, the Malay states and the historical concepts of kerajaan, negeri, jajahan and bangsa, the British administration, the context of the Malayan Union proposal and related matters to lend us a flavour and a context with which to examine Tun Tan Cheng Lock's place in our nation's history. —  SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
• However intensely it may be dramatized here and there, on the whole it must be presented as a conspectus, the angle of vision being assigned to the narrator. —  The Craft of Fiction
• The conspectus, which brings into one view the titles, dates, places and printers' names, will serve also as a sufficient index While we are here most concerned with the genealogy and family history of the books, or in other words with their press relationships, the personal history attaching to them--_habent sua fata libelli_--is not without interest. —  Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
• I have finally adopted, with some modifications the arrangement of Marquart, which seems to me to give the clearest "conspectus" of these confused wars The Persian empire, like those of the Chaldцans and Medes, had consisted hitherto of nothing but a fortuitous collection of provinces under military rule, of vassal kingdoms, and of semi-independent cities and tribes; there was no fixed division of authority, and no regular system of government for the outlying provinces. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12)
• First the conspectus, then the details," he added delightedly. —  Watersprings

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