conspectus
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In terms of sheer quality, this show can claim to be the greatest conspectus of Chinese art ever held in America.
From Time Magazine Archive
The conspectus of styles, manners and approaches in the show is somewhat muffled by the lack of key paintings by fundamental masters of realism like Courbet or Honore Daumier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture.
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Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and the first decade of the 20th century in France, is definitive.
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With con, with, spicere forms conspicere, to see together, conspectus, conspicuous.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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