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com⋅pen⋅di⋅ous

   [kuhm-pen-dee-uhs]
–adjective
of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L compendiōsus. See compendium, -ous
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Compendiousness

Com*pen"di*ous*ness\, n. The state or quality of being compendious.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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