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adjective

Succinct adj.

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. "His habit fit for speed succinct."

Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. "Let all your precepts be succinct and clear." "The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind."

Synonyms: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... then sinking them for ever in the cruelties of a tyrant's power. It is the crushing out of the mind's force,—the subduing the mental and physical man to make the chattel complete,—the shutting out of all the succinct virtues that nurture freedom, that incite us to improve the endowments of nature, that proves the rankling poison. And this poison spreads its baneful influence in and around ...

— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

... To that battle itself, even the preliminary matter in its earliest part is some years posterior: the main action, of course, is still more so. But Victor must give us his account of this great engagement, and he gives it in about a hundred pages of the most succinct reproduction. For my part, I should be glad to have it "mixed with much wine," even if the wine were of that luscious and headachy south-of-France character which he himself is said to have preferred to Bordeaux or Champagne, Sauterne or even Burgundy. Nay, without ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... neutrality a storehouse of facts is to be found in The New York Times Current History, published monthly. The American Year Book contains a succinct narrative of the events of each year, which may be supplemented by that in the Annual Register which is written from the British point of view. A brief resume of Wilson's first term is contained in F. A. Ogg's National Progress (1918). More detailed is the first volume of J. ...

— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... is printing his laborious and curious Catalogue of English heads, with an accurate though succinct account of almost all the persons. It will be a very valuable and useful work, and I heartily wish may succeed; though I have some fears. There are of late a small number of persons who collect English heads ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... concerns to attend to, the negotiations were greatly delayed. Finally, Alonso Sanchez sought a minister who had easy access to the royal apartments, and this personage obtained from the King permission to examine the documents and hand to him a succinct resume of the whole for His Majesty's consideration. A commission was then appointed, including Sanchez, and ...

— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman

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