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compends

compends is the plural of compend.

Meaning of compend

Noun

compend (plural compends)

  1. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
    • […] 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.1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy

Questions about compends

What is compends the plural of?
Compends is the plural of compend.

Words near compends in the dictionary

  1. compendious
  2. compendiously
  3. compendiousness
  4. compendium
  5. compendiums
  6. compends
  7. compenetrate
  8. compenetrates
  9. compensability
  10. compensable
  11. compensables

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