[ad. L. compend-ium: See below. Cf. stipend.] = COMPENDIUM.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (1885), 41. Of the Sey calfes … the cause of this our compend, permitis vs nocht copiouslie to expone.
1640. G. Watts, trans. Bacon’s Adv. Learn., 327. I would principally advise … that Youth beware of compends and abridgements.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 526. A compend or syllabus of their lectures.
1833. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1852), 123. The Compend of Aldrich … has furnished, for above a Century, the little all of Logic doled out … by the University of Bradwardin and Scotus.
1881. W. R. Smith, Old Test. in Jew. Ch., 11. The sort of theology of which the Westminster Confession and the Thirty-nine Articles are compends.
b. transf. and fig.
1642. Declar. Lords & Com., To Gen. Assemb. Ch. Scot., 4. The compend of all calamities.
1677. Gilpin, Demonol. (1867), 416. He shewed … vineyards, and fields that were near, as a compend of the whole.
1882. J. Payne, 1001 Nights, I. 182. He ’s such a compend of beauties.
