Briefly giving the gist of something.
1 You've heard how short, concise, and compendious he is in his answers.
2 Survey of London, by John Stow A compendious street-by-street trawl through Elizabethan London.
3 Hence the ambitious, compendious and uneven Offside, which is currently installed.
4 Pethel took it in the most compendious form, and crumpled it into his pocket.
5 Its compendious approach and lovingly recreated cute versions of characters add appeal for superfans.
6 A series of exquisitely accurate and compendious collages unfolds, beginning with a double dawn.
7 Our compendious wardrobes were snugly packed into bundles and laid aside for the present.
8 Number Seven's compendious and comprehensive symbolism proved suggestive, as his whimsical notions often do.
9 This compendious scheme struck the imagination, but did not satisfy the judgment of the assembly.
10 For purposes of general convenience they admit of a much more compendious mode of expression.
11 Please therefore, if you talk with me, to adopt the latter or more compendious method.
12 The most compendious reply is the magnetism of the love of God as revealed in Christ.
13 He had only two days to acquire this accomplishment in: so he took a compendious method.
14 The single verse I quote is compendious enough and descriptive enough for an Elizabethan monumental inscription.
15 There never was at any time written a more excellent, complete, nor compendious book of virtues.
16 I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself down to one small, compendious vertebra.
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