compendious

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Another documents the founding in 1974 — by Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallero, Pamela Olin and Julia Stanley — of a compendious and still-growing register of lesbian culture called the Herstory Archives.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

Nonetheless, astronomers and astrophysicists came together to write a single compendious paper about the event.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 16, 2017

It may be odd not to find it in this compendious store of resonances .

From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2015

What’s so amazing about the book is its compendious nature.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2013

A compendious French and English and English and French Dictionary, for the use of Students and Travellers.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Pardoe, Julia