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document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.

A new compilation.

lement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

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.

Compilation. [R.]

One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

a compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest. A complete digest of Hind…

The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rou…

made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Kent.

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws. Bacon.

ochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century. Encyc. Brit.