succinct
Definitions & Usage
Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.
Of clothes: not loose; close-fitting, tight-fitting.
Compressed into a small area; compact.
Of an action, etc.: lasting a short time; brief, curt.
Of speech or writing: brief and to the point; concise.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“The Tovvne is moſt beautified, by a vaſt Garden of the Kings, ſuccinct vvith a great tovvred mud-vvall, larger than the Circuit of the Citie.”
— 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “Tyroan”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 115:
“Svvift to the hall they haſte; aſide they lay / Their garments, and ſuccinct, the victims [animals] ſlay.”
— 1726, Homer, “Book XVII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume IV, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 116, lines 199–200:
“Placid her pose, the calm of energy; / And over her broad brow in many a round / (That loosened would have gilt her garment's hem), / Succinct, as toil prescribes, the hair was wound / In lustrous coils, a natural diadem.”
— 1876 December, James Russell Lowell, “An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876”, in Three Memorial Poems, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1877, →OCLC, canto I, page 72: