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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin