Before the nineteenth century, one may find illustrations of bloodletting instruments in the major textbooks on surgery, in encyclopedias such as that of Diderot, and in compendia of surgical instruments written by surgeons.
From the 1780s on, cups with brass syringes began to appear in compendia of instruments.
The Hindoo law has been to a great extent embodied in writing, but, ancient as in one sense are the compendia which still exist in Sanskrit, they contain ample evidence that they were drawn up after the mischief had been done.
Epitomes and compendia appear, simplified and mechanical abstracts of the bare elements of inherited knowledge and current education.
Such compendia began to appear in the fifth century, and through these and other channels a considerable medical knowledge found its way to a congenial home in Salerno.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compendia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
