Compendium vs Cursory - What's the difference?
compendium | cursory |
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
A list or collection of various items.
* 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
# (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
hasty; superficial; careless
(obsolete) Running about; not stationary.
As a noun compendium
is a short, complete summary; an abstract.As an adjective cursory is
hasty; superficial; careless.compendium
English
(wikipedia compendium)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.
Derived terms
* compendialcursory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.