compend

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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.

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