different between abridgement vs compend

abridgement

English

Etymology

abridge +? -ment

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??b??d??.m?nt/

Noun

abridgement (countable and uncountable, plural abridgements)

  1. (chiefly Britain) Alternative form of abridgment

abridgement From the web:

  • abridgement meaning
  • abridgement what does it mean
  • what is abridgement of time
  • what is abridgement in literature
  • what do abridgement mean
  • what are abridgement rights
  • what is abridgement meaning in hindi
  • what does abridgement synonym


compend

English

Noun

compend (plural compends)

  1. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
    • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy
      [] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.

Related terms

  • compendious
  • compendium

Further reading

  • compend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • compend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • compend at OneLook Dictionary Search

compend From the web:

  • compendium meaning
  • compendia meaning
  • compendial meaning
  • compendious what does it mean
  • competent what does it mean
  • what does compendium mean
  • what is compendia in pharma
  • what is compendial testing
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like