CONCISE

concise. concise, briefe or short

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concise. Concise, a. short, brief, contracted, trifling

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Con‐cise″ (?), a. [[L. concisus cut off, short, p. p. of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.; cf. F. concis.]] Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; — used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts. Syn. — Laconic; terse; brief; short; compendious; summary; succinct. See Laconic, and Terse.