Meanings
adverbcompendiously (comparative more compendiously, superlative most compendiously)
comparative more compendiously · superlative most compendiously
- In a compendious manner.
Thys boke we have devysed, Compendyously comprysed, […]
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 23–24
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