† compendize,v.Obs. [f. compend + -ize.] trans. To epitomize, abridge. 1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 87 The Episcopalians took care to compendise that Book.1722Wodrow Suff.Ch.Scot. II. ii. ix. 259, I find them compendised by himself.1722D. Spence (title), Arithmetick Compendiz'd.