compend

compend

English

Noun

compend (plural compends)

1. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
   • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy

     […] 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.

Related terms

• compendious
• compendium

Further reading

• compend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• compend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• compend at OneLook Dictionary Search