Crossword-Solution: COMPENDIA 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And, finally, compendia like this one alter what they observe by implicitly stamping cultural approval on terms and widening their use.

Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one.

Many "Compendia" were written containing extracts from various writers, and no doubt these were extensively copied and lent or sold to students.

But for being a Denyer, she might have been content to say that she studied history, and in that case her life might also have been solaced by the companionship of readable books; but, as modernism would have it, she could not be content to base her historical inquiries on anything less than strata of geology and biological elements, with the result that she toiled day by day at perky little primers and compendia, and only learnt one chapter that it might be driven out of her head by the next.

They possess several valuable works on Chinese jurisprudence, on agriculture, economy, mechanics, trades, many cyclopaedias and compendia, and several dictionaries, composed with extraordinary skill and patience.