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Containing the substance oe general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. Sir T. Elyot.

A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary. A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts.

To contain or comprise. [Obs.] Which these six books compile. Spenser.

Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket. "Complimentary addresses." Prescott.

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire. Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12.

The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion. In the Old Testament there is a close comprehension of the New; in the New, an open discovery of the Old. Hooker.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] Woodward.

Composed of shells; containing many shells.

Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation; producing or containing concretions.

Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.

sale, the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.

Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton.

avoiding the legal effect claimed for them. Mozley & W. Confession of faith, a formulary containing the articles of faith; a creed. -- General confession, the confession of sins made by a number of persons in common, as in public prayer. -- Westminster Confession. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.…

Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperæmic; -- said of any part of the body.

A liquid measure containing about three quarts.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.

Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.]

Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. No Russian whose dissonant consonant name Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame. T. Moore.

ngement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke.