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† comˈpendiary, n. and a. Obs.
[ad. L. compendiāri-us short, compendious, f. compendium: see below. The n. represents L. compendiārium, the neuter of the adj. used subst.: see -arium, -ary.]
A. n. A compendium.
1589Nashe Pref. Greene's Arcadia (1616) 7 Their ouerfraught studies, with trifling compendiaries. 1622E. Misselden Free Trade 42 An Epitome or Compendiary of all the former Statutes. a1631Donne Serm. xxxii. 316 A Compendiary and Summary Abridgement.
B. adj. Compendious, expeditious, brief.
1609Bp. Barlow Answ. Nameless Catholic 20 A Compendiary limitation. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 100 To circumvent some one, and by a compendiary way to reduce him under his power. 1801–15Fuseli Lect. Art x. (1848) 531 That compendiary method which..has ruined the arts of every country by reducing execution to a recipe. |