vade mecum

NOUN
  1. a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location
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How To Use vade mecum In A Sentence

  • The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked). Cover to Cover
  • His book will certainly be an important vade mecum on the subject for the new negotiations which should begin this summer; I cannot imagine that any international official will want to repeat this work. May Books 38) Cyprus, 39) A Functional Cyprus Settlement
  • How Novels Work still impresses me as a handy vade mecum when you just can't figure it out for yourself. 40 entries from May 2007
  • He wrote a monograph on the fulmar and the still unsurpassed Shell Bird Book, a vade mecum of the cultural and natural history of British birds. A Year on the Wing
  • He wrote a monograph on the fulmar and the still unsurpassed Shell Bird Book, a vade mecum of the cultural and natural history of British birds. A Year on the Wing
  • The title of this improbable vade mecum — a sternly selective, mostly chronological survey of some two dozen canonical philosophers and their core precepts — is a fair question (even if bathetically asked). Cover to Cover
  • Since other gentlemen are not more obsequious in gallantry, I hereby tender myself for honour of accompanyist and _vade mecum_. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • Her volume of songs, Zumerteg (Summer Days), is a vade mecum for lovers of Yiddish. Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman.
  • One would not find the term "bananas" in that diagnostic vade mecum, the DSM-IV, but the psychiatrist who used it felt momentarily less oppressed by his calling simply because the word defused the tension and the sadness. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
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