compend en · NOUN
Meanings
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A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
[…] 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.
1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:
Forms
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| compends | Number=Plur | lexicographic |