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English
Etymology
From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.
Adjective
compendious (comparative more compendious, superlative most compendious)
- containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s.
This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.
- briefly describing a body of knowledge
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containing a subset of words
briefly describing a body of knowledge
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