compend

English

Noun

compend (plural compends)

  1. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
    • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy
      […] 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.

Further reading
  • compend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • compend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • compend at OneLook Dictionary Search
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