Compends [noun]
Definition of Compends:
condensation
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Sentence/Example of Compends:
As the revelation did not consist in doctrines, so the doctrine we require is not a creed or compend of doctrines.
And Alcuin proceeded to furnish him with a compend of the scientia bene dicendi, which is Rhetoric.
This book was the most popular compend of saints lives in use in the later Middle Ages.
Peter Lombard, somewhat their junior, presents its compend of accepted and partly digested theology.
He also made a brief and salutary theological compend, which he called the Breviloquium.
The work is a complete systematic compend of Christian theology; its conciseness and lucidity of statement are admirable.
I shall write only whereof I know—not by any means a compend of Creole cookery.
Ten commandments constitute the brief compend of human duty.
Perhaps it may be accounted for by the order of the compend of Christian ethics the writer was following.
It is an interesting compend of events, of which even a condensed history might fill a dozen volumes.