How To Use Compendious In A Sentence
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We are of opinion that, with reference to such a measure as the one now suggested [giving information to persons at a distance as to the existence of works in the library], and to other measures and regulations generally affecting the use of the library, it is desirable to prepare and publish a compendious _Guide to the reading-room_, as described and _suggested_ by lord Seymour at Q. 9521.
Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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His compendious book ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
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My professor referred me to the book Compendious System of Astronomy.
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At the end, a compendious sum - up and an expectation were brought out.
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As a bonus question - why has the story vanished from the Guardian's compendious website?
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'Magnum Contact Sheets' Thames & Hudson, 508 pages, $150 , a compendious record of these deliberations spanning nine decades, attests to the decisions and revisions that produce definitive images.
Photo-Op: Miles and Miles and Miles
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These amounted to a compendious accounting for the possessions of most if not all squatters on the entire length of territory stretching east of Melbourne and from the Murray to Bass Strait, and all three parties to the Loughnan affair were listed, viz.No. 24.
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Housing land supply was exhaustively examined by the local plan inquiry Inspector, who had compendious, borough-wide evidence before him, including information on all potential housing sites.
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& more compendious, and easier to beare away and be retained in memorie, then that which is contained in multitude of words and full of tedious ambage and long periods.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Folklore and legends were retold by the bards, who used devices such as alliteration and rhyme, as well as a compendious store of stock phrases, to aid memorisation and recall, allowing them to instantly ‘compose’ a poem for any occasion.
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This is a massive, compendious and copiously researched book that tells the whole of what used to be called ‘our island story’.
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Made compendious introduction to the aluminum foil industry of Germany and France.
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Children's Games is the title of the work, conjuring Pieter Bruegel's great painting of the same name, and there are traces here of the Flemish painter's compendious humour and spirit, just as there is something of Magritte in the queer scenarios of Alÿs's little paintings.
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception; Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
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Yet, on occasion, one cannot help but admire his eager intelligence and compendious grasp of the field.
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There is no reference to Mary Wollstonecraft; it seems as if her life and all its storms had been swept away in one of those compendious et ceteras, and yet the next sentence reads like an unconscious comment.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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This book details the social lives of children and includes compendious and informative summaries of attachment theory, friendship formation, group power and function, gender issues, and child psychology.
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He's also known for his compendious technical knowledge and his tactical sophistication and willingness to question orthodoxies, qualities he's demonstrated as an insightful newspaper columnist.
Can Fletcher Be a Leader of Champions?
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Peter Sheppard Skærved, who writes the compendious notes, wonders if Beethoven himself might have written the adagio variation.
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With so many decontextualized styles waiting at every exit, his compendious description of the American highway landscape compresses a hemisphereful of designs into a single journey.
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Long before Shakespeare's death the playwrights had lost confidence in their power to offer a conspectus or compendious view.
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a short and compendious book
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Given the compendious nature of Wood's works, this is hardly surprising, of course.
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Apparently the compendious works on Chicago history by John Kirkland had not been consulted.
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His book is compendious in its scope, taking in three decades of street life in Los Angeles, a century of the city's police force, and a dramatis personae that runs to five and a half pages.
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Peter Sheppard Skærved, who writes the compendious notes, wonders if Beethoven himself might have written the adagio variation.
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Another cause is, for that it is briefer & more compendious, and easier to beare away and be retained in memorie, then that which is contained in multitude of words and full of tedious ambage and long periods.
The Arte of English Poesie
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The movie also sketches in the five-year-long, globe-girdling voyage during which he collected the compendious data for his book, along with much peripheral information about his health (wretched), his relationship with his devoutly religious wife (strained) and his apparently never-ending connection to his dead 10-year-old daughter (feverish).
Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Creation’ » MTV Movies Blog
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Her writing is elegant, the record compendious.
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So began an on-again/off-again romance fully charted in this compendious collection of Marcus's occasional writings on his hero.
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review
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The second limb is concerned with what, for want of a better compendious description, can be called the liability of an accessory to a trustee's breach of trust.
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His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
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Failure to listen ranks high in the compendious catalogue of couple complaints.
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It is authoritative, compendious and highly readable.
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If so, Mr. Romney self-administered the follow-up inoculation by throwing out that he probably pays, oh, 15% of his compendious income in taxes.
Behold the Taxpayer Behind the Tree
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It is a shame to miss the compendiousness and convincingness of the picture, of the crumbling - crummy - amalgam of dark and dry, of what is there and what is lost.
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Wendy Doniger's compendious account of religious traditions that constitute an "ism" only in the broadest possible sense begins with an account of being egg-pelted by one such hardliner who objected to her suggestion that some Sanskrit texts are interested in divine female sexuality.
The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger – review
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He got this tree up, shortened the stem, shaped the root, shod the point with some of his late old iron; and with this primitive tool, and a thick stake baked at the point, he opened the ground to receive twelve stout uprights, and he drove them with a tremendous mallet made upon what might be called the compendious or Hazelian method; it was a section of a hard tree with a thick shoot growing out of it, which shoot, being shortened, served for the handle.
Foul Play
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In An American Dilemma, a compendious study of American racism, another foreign observer, Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal, recognized the self-correcting nature of what he too called the American Creed.
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Our learned friends seek to restrict the word ‘obvious’ to the most narrow meaning possible - that is not the way it has been dealt with - and our friends ignore the fact that it is a compendious concept.
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Now, another problem with that paragraph is that it seeks to deal in a compendious manner with disparate kinds of corroborative evidence.