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.

Related terms

• compendious
• compendium

Further reading

• “compend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “compend”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “compend”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.