epigrammaticadj.
/ˌɛpɪɡrəˈmatɪk/ Of or pertaining to epigrams; of the nature, or in the style, of an epigram; concise, pointed.
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a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 94 An epigrammatick poem is more charming than Homer or Virgil.
1750 H. Walpole Let. 2 Apr. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 362 The sting is very epigrammatic.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 674 Martial, of Spain, the epigrammatic poet.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. i. 18 The logic of wit, conveyed in smooth and strong epigrammatic couplets.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Manners in Wks. (1906) I. 217 Scott's..lords brave each other in smart epigrammatic speeches.
1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. xli. 27 He wrote with vivacity and sometimes with epigrammatic terseness.
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