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compendiate
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin compendiātus, perfect passive participle of compendiō (“to shorten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from compendium.
Verb
compendiate (third-person singular simple present compendiates, present participle compendiating, simple past and past participle compendiated)
- (obsolete) To sum or collect together.
- 1652, William Chillingworth, Infidelity Vnmasked:
- and as it were of it self a compendium, before it could be compendiated
References
- “compendiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
compendiate
- inflection of compendiare:
Etymology 2
Participle
compendiate f pl
Spanish
Verb
compendiate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of compendiar combined with te
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