Sentence examples for were compendium from inspiring English sources
noun
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
Among his grammatical works were Compendium grammatice ("Outline of Grammar"), Liber de constructionibus ("Book on Constructions"), and a Latin vocabulary.
Guidelines can be helpful in these situations, but a limitation of guidelines is that they usually are compendiums of expert opinion and provide little quantitative guidance.
He says the advertisements were a compendium of the kinds of gadgets an industrial society produces in its declining years.
It is a compendium of allusions.
His play is a compendium of undramatic devices.
As a result, it was a compendium of compromises.
For all its freshness and drive, however, "February House" is a compendium of rookie mistakes.
Overweight and ugly, Fry is a compendium of society's darkest forces.
It's a compendium of archival odds and ends: postcards, snapshots, arcane pronouncements.
The dictionary is a compendium of possible allusions, from language to language and word to word.
It's a compendium of everything one loves about 007 – and with Connery at his apogee.
