Adjective
containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
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AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.
briefly describing a body of knowledge
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briefly giving the gist of something
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a short and compendious book
a compact style is brief and pithy
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a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject