conspectus
Noun

conspectus (plural conspectuses)

  1. A detailed survey or overview of a subject.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      Already the whole of his past life had vividly presented itself to him—myriads of tiny incidents, long forgotten, now standing out sharply in their due sequence. He had mastered this conspectus in a flash of time, and was already tired of it.



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