Associations to the word «Compendium»

Wiktionary

COMPENDIUM, noun. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
COMPENDIUM, noun. A list or collection of various items.
COMPENDIUM, noun. (pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.

Dictionary definition

COMPENDIUM, noun. A publication containing a variety of works.
COMPENDIUM, noun. A concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope