opuscule
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A small work; especially, a literary or musical work of small size.
Examples
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But in his snappy new opuscule Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (Simon & Schuster), Denby fulminates against the epidemic of verbal hazing.
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There are people who collect every stray opuscule by prolific and disparate authors -- Henry Miller, say, or Ezra Pound -- and they will forever be chasing down that one pamphlet printed in an edition of 12 in Orvieto in 1932.
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Why, a man who can say of a Christmas book that “it is an opuscule denominated so-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansive emotion incident upon the exodus of the old year,” must evidently have had immense sums and care expended on his early education, and deserves a splendid return.
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Few lovers of old books and good binding will begrudge half a florin for this quaint opuscule.
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Yet neither he nor any one else on his side has ever effectively shaken the solid argument which Diderot fancifully illustrated in the following passage from his reply to Voltaire's letter of thanks for the opuscule: “This marvellous order and these wondrous adaptations, what am I to think of them?
Note
The word 'opuscule' comes from a Latin word meaning 'little work'.
