compendium

In the 1790s, the Scottish artist James Wales employed both men to depict ancient Indian architecture for a compendium of Indian landscapes, “Oriental Scenery,” published 1795-1807/8.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Whereas “Lover Tofu Fruit” wound up laden with session songs Day never liked in the first place, her new record is an intricate compendium she stands by from start to finish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

About 65,000 people were in ICE detention as of 30 November 2025, according to data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse's Immigration project, a compendium of government data from Syracuse University.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

The release of “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” is accompanied by a new compendium of standout tracks by McCartney and Wings.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2025

A full compendium of those laws would run more than three thousand pages and weigh approximately ten pounds, but the general thrust of it should be easy enough for any American to understand.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The sequel is tentatively titled “Filthy Healthy Cravings”: a compromise, perhaps, between recent salad-centric compendia and the permissive indulgence of Chrissy Teigen’s cookbooks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2018

“Legal compendia are among the foundational reference works in every civilization.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2016

They should have, he argues, and to demonstrate that he is perfectly serious, Fussell goes through the Handbook, with meticulous care before concluding that it is a "compendia of good sense".

From The Guardian ● May 24, 2012

Thank Naxos Records for its compendia of Barber’s orchestral music and of Schuman’s symphonies, both timed to coincide with the centenaries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2011

Before the nineteenth century, one may find illustrations of bloodletting instruments in the major textbooks on surgery, in encyclopedias such as that of Diderot, and in compendia of surgical instruments written by surgeons.

From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Toby Appel

That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023

Both are compendiums of artful dodging and febrile rhetoric, which is what corporate lawyers produce for a living.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Indeed, American cookbook authors focusing on non-Eurocentric recipes no longer have to be compendiums that represent the cuisine of their heritage as a whole; instead they can have diasporic nuances.

From Salon ● May 26, 2022

In stark contrast, late medieval compendiums of saints’ lives, notably Jacobus de Voragine’s “The Golden Legend,” present entire church calendars of resolutely chaste, determinedly self-sacrificing female martyrs.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2020

Caraka's sûtras were therefore probably written at a time when the Vais'e@sika doctrines were undergoing changes, and well-known compendiums were beginning to be written on them.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta