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Compendium vs Compend - What's the difference?

compendium | compend |

As nouns the difference between compendium and compend

is that compendium is a short, complete summary; an abstract while compend is a compendium; an epitome; a summary.

compendium

English

(wikipedia compendium)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  • A list or collection of various items.
  • * 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
    • It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.
  • # (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.

    • Derived terms

    * compendial

    Related terms

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    compend

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
  • * (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * compendious * compendium

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