compendiosityt (kompendiositi)

[ compendious (kom-pen'di-us), a. [= F. com pendieux = Sp. Pg. It. compendioso, pendiosus, short, abridged, On esy wyse latte thy Resone be sayde In wordes gentylle and also compendious . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 3. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority that it be compendious , sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, ii. 2. 2t. Narrow; limited. [Rare.] Thies men, in matters of Diuinitie, openlie pretend a great knowledge, and haue priuately to them selues a verie compendious vnderstanding of all. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 82. 31. Short; direct; not circuitous. facile, prompte, and redy waye, nott withoute pain full Wherein Mr. Vallence after a wonderesly compendious , del egence and laborious industrie, doth enstructe them. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. xxi. I think the most compendious cure, for some of them at least, had been in Bedlam. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 631. = Syn. 1. Succinct, Summary, etc. See concise. compensation We are that bold and adventurous piece of nature, which he that studies wisely learns in a compendium, what others labour at in a divided piece and endle volume. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 15. A short system or compendium of a science. Watts, Improvement of Mind. =Syn. Epitome , Abstract, etc. See abridgment.