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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1693-1700+
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Compendize, -ise,. v. [f. Compend n.] tr. To make a compendium of; to abridge or summarize. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scot. 87.
The Episcopalians took care to compendise that book 1698 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs IV. 273.
The missive anent ther clerks compendizeing the acts of the generall or particular … conventions 1701 Ib. 319.
The great trouble … taken by Æneas MacLeod … by compendizeing the wholl acts … of the generall conventiones
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