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Definition of Compilations
1. compilation [n] - See also: compilation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compilations
Literary usage of Compilations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Patents for Inventions and of Copyright by Richard Godson (1840)
"It will be convenient to divide works on general subjects into, I. compilations.
II. Books of Calculations III. Abridgments. IV. Translations. ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... from the foregoing statement, that the between distinction between jus civile
and jus gentium, which occurs in jus civile Justinian's compilations, ..."
3. Brief Making and the Use of Law Books by William Minor Lile, Nathan Abbott, James Everett Wheeler, Henry Stephen Redfield (1905)
"compilations and Revised Statutes. The title given to the general ... In nearly
all the states, however, there are compilations or revisions of the statutes ..."
4. Copyright, Its History and Its Law: Being a Summary of the Principles and by Richard Rogers Bowker (1912)
"6): "That compilations or abridgments, adaptations, arrangements, dramatizations,
translations, or other versions of works in the public domain, ..."
5. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1885)
"They were arranged, like the previous compilations, in five books of titles
subdivided in canons. The Sext, of the decretals of the subsequent popes, ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1893)
"The sma'ler guides have different features and are all new compilations. We have
provided farther on for another class of idlers, who are not looking ..."
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