conspectus
IPA: kʌnspˈɛktʌs
noun
- A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
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Examples of "conspectus" in Sentences
- Conspectus of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar.
- Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR.
- But the time is not wasted; the conspectus is always good, and the blur that remains on the mind is probably just enough.
- How completely he disassociated Ukrainia from Northern Russia may be judged by the conspectus of his lectures written in 1832.
- It simply beggared belief that Peter, who had stuffed away somewhere in his head a vast conspectus of English poetry, should choose to hang his fate on this.
- In order to complete the translation, they settle on an interpretation that fits their view of the meaning, but in so doing, they create a conspectus that may or may not be the meaning of the prophecy. '
- There is no place in this conspectus for the person as such, for those who live as individuals humble to God, haughty to man 'scorning the bounds of a predetermined estate, vindicating the glory of person as person.
- The second was that, even if it was assumed in his favour that the full conspectus of relevant material had been placed before the court, it fell short of establishing the case sought to be made out by the court below.
- To make matters worse, he's come up with a blindingly obvious and brilliant wheeze for both generating lots of interesting copy and also providing what amounts to a grand conspectus of the entire open source business scene: an emailed survey of top CEOs there.
- Michael C. Witte Jim Holt, who takes in so much about the history and philosophy of joke-telling in his concise and amiable conspectus of the subject, "Stop Me If You've Heard This," does not mention the effect of the Internet on joke-telling, but that's about his only omission.
- English Slang in the Nineteenth Century "aims to provide a conspectus, if not comprehensive then at least covering a wide range, of nineteenth-century English slang"; as aldi says: "It includes general works such as Hotten's The Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words by a London Antiquary, 1859, as well as more specialized books."