The Only Use
compendium
in
1984, by Orwell
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- 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.†
p. 13.9compendium = a list of items or a collection; or a summary of a subject area
Definitions:
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(1)
(compendium) a list of items or a collection -- especially a publication containing a variety of works
or:
a concise but comprehensive summary of a subject area - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)