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brachylogy|bræˈkɪlədʒɪ|
Also 7 brachil-, 8 brachyology.
[ad. Gr. βραχυλογία, in med.L. brachiologia, f. βραχύ-ς short + -λογία speech: see -logy. Cf. F. brachylogie.]
Conciseness of speech, laconism; concr. a condensed expression.
[1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 222 Brachiologa, or the Cutted comma.] 1623Cockeram, Brachilogies, short speeches. 1716M. Davies in Athen. Britan. II. To Reader xlv, In the Poet's Brachyology, Aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo. 1866Ellicott On 2 Thess. iii. 7 A simple and intelligible brachylogy. 1882–3Schaff in Herzog's Encycl. Rel. Knowl. III. 2293 Delitzsch specifies brachylogy as characteristic of its [the Talmud's] style. |