Modifies a noun

• history: Richard Guest, whose book A Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture was published in 1823, points up the problem.

• way: Would ye know a compendious way to mortify your lusts, then give Christ one look.

• description: Both concepts are compendious descriptions of the way in which one party conducted him/herself toward the other and/or the family during the marriage.

• volume: Complementing this, a compendious printed volume will be produced, richly illustrated with images of cuneiform signs.

• note: Peter Sheppard Skærved, who writes the compendious notes, wonders if Beethoven himself might have written the adagio variation toward the end.

• method: Compiled in a most easie, and compendious method, by Paule Ive, Gent.