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Compendiously

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com·pen·di·ous  (km-pnd-s)
adj.
Containing or stating briefly and concisely all the essentials; succinct.
[Middle English, from Late Latin compendisus, from Latin compendium, a shortening; see compendium.]
com·pendi·ous·ly adv.
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Farebrother on the possible histories of creatures that converse compendiously with their antennae, and for aught we know may hold reformed parliaments; when suddenly some inarticulate little sounds were heard which called everybody's attention.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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