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in compendio en · ADV

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin in compendio.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In abridged form; in summary.
    • Therefore how could he show him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory thereof? Ans. These words must not be taken rigorously ; but that showed them :—(1.) In compendio. [...] 1870, Thomas Manton, The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., J. Nisbet & Company, page 302:
    • As Kahnis puts it, blood is life in compendio. 1889, “Pertaining to Blood Sacrifices”, in Exodus (chap. XII), Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, Funk & Wagnalls, page 361:
    • The curse therefore fights with the blessing, and would condemn it and altogether bring it to naught, but it cannot do so. [...] Finally, here we have salvation (as Irenæus would have said) in compendio. 2001, Robert Franks, A History of the Doctrine of the Work of Christ, page 299:

Antonyms

in extenso