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compendiate

compendiate verb: to sum or collect together.

Verb

compendiate (third-person singular simple present compendiates, present participle compendiating, simple past and past participle compendiated)

  1. (obsolete) To sum or collect together.
    • and as it were of it self a compendium, before it could be compendiated1652, William Chillingworth, Infidelity Vnmasked

Forms of compendiate

third-person singular presentcompendiates
present participlecompendiating
past participlecompendiated
pastcompendiated

Origin of compendiate

Borrowed from Late Latin compendiātus, perfect passive participle of compendiō (“to shorten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from compendium.

Questions about compendiate

What does compendiate mean?
Compendiate means to sum or collect together.
What part of speech is compendiate?
Compendiate is a verb.
What is the past tense of compendiate?
The past tense of compendiate is compendiated.

Words near compendiate in the dictionary

  1. compels testimony
  2. compend
  3. compendia
  4. compendial
  5. compendiary
  6. compendiate
  7. compendiated
  8. compendious
  9. compendiously
  10. compendiousness
  11. compendium

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