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compend

/kuhm-pen-dee-uhm/US // kəmˈpɛn di əm //UK // (kəmˈpɛndɪəm) //

汇编,编制,汇总,编纂

Related Words

sketch简图,素描,草图,简述essence精髓,精华,精英,精粹abstract抽象的,抽象,抽取,抽象派manual手册brief简介,简要,简短的,简短summary摘要,概要,概述,撮要syllabus大纲,教学大纲,提纲,课程大纲survey调查,调查表,调查报告,观察conspectus纲要,指南,细则,指南针overview概述,概况,综述,概观handbook手册,手记epitome缩影,表征,缩略语,外显子guide指南,指导,导读,导游digest摘要,文摘,消化,消化液pandect泛德,泛德公司,泛道德,泛道德化

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·pen·di·ums, com·pen·di·a [kuhm-pen-dee-uh]. /kəmˈpɛn di ə/.

    • : a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
    • : a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
    • : a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inabridgment
Synonyms
breviary小册子,祷文,诵经书compendium汇编,大纲,简编,大系curtailment缩减,缩减开支,削减,缩水decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌digest摘要,文摘,消化,消化液diminution缩减,缩水,减弱,减少epitome缩影,表征,缩略语,外显子lessening减轻,减弱,减缓,减少outline纲要,概要,纲举目张,概述reduction减少,削减,缩减,降低sketch简图,素描,草图,简述summary摘要,概要,概述,撮要synopsis梗概,简介,提要,提纲

Examples

  • As the revelation did not consist in doctrines, so the doctrine we require is not a creed or compend of doctrines.

  • And Alcuin proceeded to furnish him with a compend of the scientia bene dicendi, which is Rhetoric.

  • This book was the most popular compend of saints lives in use in the later Middle Ages.

  • Peter Lombard, somewhat their junior, presents its compend of accepted and partly digested theology.

  • He also made a brief and salutary theological compend, which he called the Breviloquium.

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