compend

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

His papers are a rare compend of literary criticism.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

Here you have a compend of the doctrine of the Scriptures.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

An admirable compend, and the best condensation we have seen.”

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

Well, then, prayer is, as it were, a compend and sum of all duties; it contains in it, faith, love, repentance; all these should breathe out in prayer.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

He's such a compend of beauties, meseems, indeed, from him The      world all beauty borrows that lives in lands and seas.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John