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a list of items or a collection — especially a publication containing a variety of worksor:
a concise but comprehensive summary of a subject area
- ...Richard Rorty is correct that "moral progress is a matter of wider and wider sympathy. It is not a matter of rising above the sentimental to the rational"... For aid in developing these capacities Rorty looks to literature, to him a compendium of images and narratives designed to widen our sympathies by moving us.Richard A. Posner
- RegretTheError.com publishes a regularly updated compendium of mistakes reported in the news media.
- The book is called A Concise Compendium of Clinical Pathology.
- At Rowan, every student receives a book, a compendium detailing the habits and behaviors of known enemies.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- In a burst of self-directed fury, he threw the Compendium across the room with all the force he could muster.Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds
- A Compendium of Common Curses and their Counter-Actions... The Dark Arts Outsmarted... Self-Defensive Spellwork... wow...J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Tactics assignments would be taken from the Rowan Compendium of Known.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- Although it was hardly an original idea, he had not appreciated the value of such a compendium until very recently.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- Aglaya's husband was to be a compendium of all the virtues, and of all success, not to speak of fabulous wealth.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- He went to his bookcase to retrieve his Rowan Compendium of Known Enemies.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Few, however, were able to acquire a compendium, for they were exceedingly rare and those who already owned them almost never parted with them willingly.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- There was an advertisement for Hermes Delivery Service, and another for the All-New Compendium of L.A. Area Monsters-"The only Monstrous Yellow Pages you'll ever need!Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
- The Jade Compendium.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- The Jade Compendium.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.George Orwell -- 1984
- The countless stories Homer's audiences knew came from all over the Greek world and were not consolidated in a single, consistent, and authoritative mythological compendium.Homer -- The Iliad
- NEVER SURPASSED COMPENDIUM OF ART TRANSFORMATION FROM TIME INTO SPACE BY MEANS OF MUSIC LAUGHING TEARS CABINET OF HUMOR SOLITUDE MADE EASY COMPLETE SUBSTITUTE FOR ALL FORMS OF SOCIABILITY.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- She now seemed inclined to take a purely critical view of Madame de Cintre, and wished to have it understood that she did not in the least answer for her being a compendium of all the virtues.Henry James -- The American
- Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- There is no one, not even the hermetics, who does not find in the symbols of the grand portal a satisfactory compendium of their science, of which the Church of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie was so complete a hieroglyph.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
compendium = a list of items or a collection