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Webster 1913 Edition

Compend

Com′pend

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Noun.

A compendium; an epitome; a summary.

A

compend

and recapitulation of the Mosaical law.

Bp. Burnet.

Webster 1828 Edition

Compend

COMPEND

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Definition 2024

compend

compend

English

Noun

compend ‎(plural compends)

A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  […] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.

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