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   { Laconic , Laconical , } a. [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. , fr.  a Laconian, Lacedæmonian, or Spartan: cf. F. laconique.]
   Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form.
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   I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
   Pope.
   
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   His sense was strong and his style laconic.
   Welwood.
   
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   Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching.
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   His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well.
   Bp. Hall.
   Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy.  -- Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
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   Laconic, n. Laconism. [Obs.]
   Addison.
   
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