Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sum up or collect together; comprehend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To sum or collect together.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To sum or collect together.
Etymologies
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Latin compendiatus, past participle of compendiare to shorten, from compendium.
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