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  • noun Plural form of compendium.

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  • Canny Minds, which sells brain-boosting products such as board, card and video games, audio books, crossword compendiums and revision guides, has teamed up with Web User to offer readers 10 per cent off.

    Web User | News 2009

  • The new rule expanded from one to four the number of guides -- also known as compendiums -- on which Medicare relies to authorize a drug for use on a certain form of cancer.

    unknown title 2009

  • Canny Minds, which sells brain-boosting products such as board, card and video games, audio books, crossword compendiums and revision guides, has teamed up with Web User to offer readers 10 per cent off.

    Web User | News 2009

  • There belong also to this division numerous didactic poems in which a prosaic content is dressed up in poetic form, such as compendiums of physics, astronomy, and medicine, and treatises on chess, fishing, hunting, and the conduct of life.

    An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Thomas Hill Green

  • a hierarchical document structure such as compendiums of XML structured documents, or other sources of documents or document references.

    Elias Kai Google-Kai.com 2009

  • I generally like the compendiums that food magazines like Bon Appetit and Food and Wine put out.

    Baking Bites » Print » The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh 2009

  • This is totally unrelated, but I've been chewing through The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror compendiums, and was wondering if there was a compilation of short stories of similarly dark and fantastic bent you or anyone here could direct me towards?

    Home again, home again...again. ellen_datlow 2010

  • My mother had a bookshelf overflowing with cookbooks, everything from church congregation–made recipe compendiums to books about the basics of regional cuisine published by Southern Living.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • In the library, books are arranged by subject, including a section for poetry and literature, one for Mr. Savage's comic compendiums and separate spaces for his books on poker theory, billiards and pool.

    A Model Maker's Workshop Nancy Keates 2011

  • Books are arranged by subject, including a section for poetry and literature, one for Mr. Savage's comic compendiums and separate spaces for his books on poker theory, billiards and pool.

    A Model Maker's Workshop 2011

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