#595.  Dissertation. —­ N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis,
theme; monograph, tract, tractate[obs3], tractation[obs3]; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect[obs3]; excursus.
     commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading
article; editorial; running commentary.
     investigation &c. (inquiry) 461; study &c. (consideration) 451;
discussion &c. (reasoning) 476; exposition &c. (explanation) 522.
     commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer. 
     V. expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject[obs3], descant upon
a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.
      hold forth[oral dissertation], discourse, delve into. 
     Adj. discursive, discoursive[obs3]; disquisitionary[obs3]; expository.

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     #596.  Compendium. —­ N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis,
epitome, multum in parvo[Lat], analysis, pandect[obs3], digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.
     album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book;
extracts, excerpta[obs3], cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium[obs3], flowers, anthology, collectanea[obs3], analecta[obs3]; compilation.
     recapitulation, resume, review.
     abbreviation, abbreviature[obs3]; contraction; shortening &c. 201;
compression &c. 195. 
     V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare
an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c. n.
     recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.
     abbreviate &c. (shorten) 201; condense &c. (compress) 195; compile &c.
(collect) 72. 
     Adj. compendious, synoptic, analectic[obs3]; abrege[Fr], abridged &c.
v.; variorum[obs3]. 
     Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words. 
     Phr. it lies in a nutshell.

     #597.  Poetry. —­ N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful
Nine, Parnassus, Helicon[obs3], Pierides, Pierian spring.
     versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry[obs3].
     poem; epic, epic poem; epopee[obs3], epopoea, ode, epode[obs3], idyl,
lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic[obs3], sonnet, roundelay, rondeau[Fr], rondo, madrigal, canzonet[obs3], cento[obs3], monody, elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal[obs3], palinode.
     dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra
poetae
     song[Lat], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song;
lullaby; music &c. 415; nursery rhymes.