The phrase "a conspectus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a comprehensive summary or overview of a subject or topic.
Example: "The report provides a conspectus of the current research trends in renewable energy."
Alternatives: "an overview" or "a summary."
In the fourth volume of Curr's book a conspectus is given of the words used in different parts of Australia for various objects.
But his impromptu images add up to a conspectus of America, its people united – in a way that is nowadays inconceivable – by a shared emotion.
The paper begins with a conspectus of the seminal literature on shock-induced separation and modes of shock oscillation.
The immense tableau of the Credo, a conspectus of movements covering the whole range of Bach's choral writing, was a shattering dramatisation of personal belief and theology.
It is indeed, to quote the author's preface, "a conspectus of the present state of the science of petrology," but it is a little doubtful whether the workers in other branches of geology or "students who have acquired an elementary knowledge of the science" will know quite how much to believe when they have read it all.
In fact, the Seventh Symphony crystallises a conspectus of a compositional technique that later composers like Elliott Carter, George Benjamin, and countless others, would employ: so called "metric modulation", in which you use a common unit of musical time to elide from one speed to another.
Few decades of experience command such dazzled interest (the teen-age years are usually written up in a spirit of damage control; the literature of fiftysomethings is a grim conspectus of temperate gatherings and winded adultery), and yet few comprise such varied kinds of life.
Her new book is a thorough conspectus of Waugh's 15 novels and, in the process, an examination of the way the life and the work interact.
Meanwhile, for a well-informed, critical, independent-minded but essentially traditional view of the subject, we have a new conspectus by James D. Tracy.
A generic conspectus and key to the forage legumes of the Mediterranean basin is also included.
The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, which has grown from a collection of local antiquities started in 1839, contains a wide range of exhibits, from costumes to parts of old buildings and from architect's drawings to models of ships, shown in such a way as to present an impressive conspectus of the state's history.
