compendia's Usage Examples:

The second volume contains minor works which are the barest compendia of facts taken from well-known sources.

P. Migne, Patrologia Graeca, c.; edition of the compendia and life by C. de Boor (1880, Teubner series); see also F.

There is a large number of small treatises and compendia of Florentine history of the guide-book description.

The medical literature of this period is extremely voluminous, but essentially second-hand, consisting mainly of commentaries on Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna and others, or of compilations and compendia still less original than commentaries.