Compend vs Synopsis - What's the difference?
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A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
* (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
(Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
Compend is a related term of synopsis.
As nouns the difference between compend and synopsis
is that compend is a compendium; an epitome; a summary while synopsis is synopsis.compend
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.