Definition of Compendia

1. Noun. (plural of compendium) ¹

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Definition of Compendia

1. compendium [n] - See also: compendium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compendia

compel
compellable
compellably
compellation
compellations
compellative
compellatives
compellatory
compelled
compeller
compellers
compelling
compellingly
compels
compend
compendia (current term)
compendious
compendiously
compendiousness
compendium
compendiums
compends
compenetrate
compensability
compensable
compensably
compensatable
compensate
compensated
compensated acidosis

Literary usage of Compendia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"It is characteristic of education in the Middle Ages that compendia of this poor kind had largely superseded their own classical sources in the ordinary use ..."

2. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1862)
"... was printed at that place in 1502. Concerning this edition, see Usher. " Brit. Eccles. Antiq." p. 77. 75. Miscellanea compendia : de ..."

3. Essays on Educational Reformers by Robert Hebert Quick (1890)
"compendia ... 5.) So nothing could have been much more unfortunate than an attempt to give the young " a brief of the whole world." compendia ..."

4. Essays on Educational Reformers by Robert Hebert Quick (1890)
"compendia ... 5.) So nothing could have been much more unfortunate than an attempt to give the young "a brief of the whole world." compendia ..."

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