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† laˈconical, a. Obs. [f. laconic a. + -al1.] = laconic a.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 236 The Epistles of Nucillus were so Laconicall and shorte. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 121 Laconicall sayings, that is, short and sententious. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 338 Proposing forsooth a streight and laconicall manner of life. 1627Bp. Hall Epist. i. v. 282 All that Laconicall discipline pleased him well. a1658Cleveland Poems (1677) 134 The Spartans..studying their Laconical Brevity. 1698Fryer E. India & P. 362 Distinctions and Laconical Evasions. |