English language

…But Webster's Compendious Dictionary was no more than a preparation for his two-volume An American Dictionary of the English language from 1828, and Compendious traces back to the Latin adjective compendiosus, meaning both comprehensive and succinct.…

…When Noah Webster titled his first dictionary published in eighteen oh six a compendious dictionary of the English language, he used the word compendious to mean short, brief, concise summary, as he defined it on the book's fifty eighth page.…

…The word inexorable, which has been part of the English language since the 1500s, was originally often applied to people, desires, or actions held to be particularly resistant to persuasion or dissuasion.…