Syllabus

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  • noun. An outline or a summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study.
  • noun. A summary or abstract of the legal rulings contained in a published judicial case opinion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, the main propositions of a course of lectures, etc.; an abstract; a table of statements contained in any writing, of a scheme of lessons, or the like.
  • noun. In the Roman Catholic Church, a summary statement and enumeration of the points decided by an act or decree of ecclesiastical authority; specifically, a catalogue formulating eighty heresies condemned by Pope Pius IX. in 1864, annexed to the encyclical letter Quanta Cura. See the quotation.
  • noun. Synonyms Compendium, Epitome. See abridgment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
  • noun. The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case. The opinion controls the syllabus, the latter being merely explanatory of the former.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an integrated course of academic studies
  • Word Usage
    "And it may sound like an easy-A elective, but the syllabus is actually pretty rigorous."
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