The word 'compendious' is a correct and usable word in written English.
The word 'compendious' means concise or brief, yet containing all necessary information. Example: The textbook on World History is very compendious and covers all major events and civilizations in just 200 pages.
Their questions to her on intelligence matters elicited "defensive responses" and an ignorance of the subject "inconsistent with her compendious and penetrating understanding of political and international affairs".
What emerges from Mr Carr's compendious and enthralling story is that narrow family interests remain more important than artistic aspiration in Bayreuth.
At its best, it is a compendious, portmanteau-like repository that captures "the concrete, everyday, corporeal nature of life".
ASKING strangers to recount their most private thoughts about sex is unlikely to make a dull book, and Brett Kahr's compendious research into the psychology of sexual fantasy is gripping.
But this Venice is dying.All these images and many more are to be found in Margaret Plant's thoroughly and lovingly researched, thoughtful and hugely compendious history of modern Venice.
Stylistic methods mirrored the eras evoked: The Children's Book was likened to the compendious late Victorian novel; The Little Stranger, with its "cool pacing" and magnificent set pieces, was reminiscent of the films of the 1940s; the symmetry and detached beauty of The Glass Room were compared to the modernist architectural masterpiece in its title.
The task of the sciences, as it earlier had been expressed by the German physicist Gustav Kirchhoff, was the pursuit of a compendious and parsimonious description of observable phenomena.
This "human history" of the Mediterranean – Braudel's was most noted for its emphasis on natural environments and long-term trends – is as imaginative and empathetic as it is compendious and rigorous.
To baseball's already compendious list of scandals must now be added one that could potentially top the lot: allegations that one team hacked into the top secret computer systems of one of its rivals.
Or Anthony Powell's equally compendious A Dance to the Music of Time?
But could you achieve quite so broad and compendious a view from the topmost vantage point of Somerset House?
