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单词 succinct
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succinctadj.

/səkˈsɪŋkt/
Etymology: < Latin succinctus, past participle of succingĕre, < suc- = sub- prefix 1b, 6 + cingĕre to gird. Compare French succinct, Italian succinto, Portuguese sucinto, Spanish sucinto.
I. As participial adjective.
1. Girt, engirdled.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective] > surrounded
purseynta1400
umberunc1440
circumdate1460
cinct?a1475
succinct?a1475
circledc1540
circumferat1575
circumscript1610
environed1610
encircled1632
precinct1641
circumcinct1656
cinctured1757
begirt1791
begirdled1813
compassed1860
surrounded1891
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 369 Thei feyne Scylla to be a woman succincte with the hedes of dogges.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 115 The Towne is most beautified, by a vast Garden of the Kings, succinct with a great towred mud-wall.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Succinct, enuironed, fenced about; girt, compassed.
1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 279 The Everlasting Form—If form there were—of lineament, was void, Succinct with shadows.
figurative.1706 Cerealia 5 Soon she shakes Her drowsie Wings, and follows to the War With speed succinct. [Cf. quot. 1667 at sense 5.]
2.
a. Of garments, etc.: Girded up; confined by or as by a girdle. Also of persons.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > fastened in specific way > belted, girdled, or pulled in
succinct1604
girdleda1817
girt1870
tie-belted1976
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing a belt or girdle
surcingled1598
succinct1604
roped1834
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Succincte..close girt vp.
1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. (1673) 324 And when my golden boss I newly had Hung up to my succinct house gods.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 200 Aside they lay Their garments, and succinct the victims slay.
1841 R. C. Trench Notes Parables xxvii. 437 The waiting at table with the dress succinct, was a mark of servitude.
1843 R. H. Horne Orion i. 86 The form Succinct..Of Artemis.
1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti i. 344 The Priest..succinct for sacrificial feast.
1876 J. R. Lowell Ode 4th July i. i. 18 Over her broad brow in many a round,..Succinct, as toil prescribes, the hair was wound In lustrous coils.
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b. Entomology. Of certain pupæ: Supported by a silken filament round the middle. In modern dictionaries.
II. In ordinary adjectival use.
3.
a. Of a narrative, etc.: Compressed into small compass; expressed in few words; brief and concise.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective]
compendious1388
briefc1430
short1487
short and sweet1545
curted1568
summarc1575
laconical1576
summary1582
succinct1585
totala1586
laconic1589
concisec1590
compendiary1609
press?1611
curt1631
Spartan1644
nutshell1647
severe1680
Lacedaemonian1780
straightforward1806
uncircumlocutory1808
shorthand1822
Spartanlike1838
unwordy1841
nutshelly1843
tight1870
Spartanic1882
unfarced1890
serried1899
taut1916
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xv. 16 b A succinct description of the yland.
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery (title page) A succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church.
1634 R. H. tr. Regim. Salerni 207 A Succinct and plaine Discourse of the Nature and nourishment of divers kinds of Fish.
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 107 A full, though succinct and sober Narrative.
1758 J. Adams in tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. I. p. x They give us a succinct account of the Creoles.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 224 A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct, The language plain, and incidents well-link'd.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iii. 278 This account of the original of language appears in general as probable as it is succinct and clear.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vii. 184 We need some more succinct mode than that of severally applying to each Syllogism all these Rules.
b. transferred. Compact.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > of small or scanty extent > compact
succinct1635
compact1642
snugc1718
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ii. 83 Hee [sc. man] is stiled a little and succinct world within himselfe.
1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iii. 84 Beyond yon humble and succinct abode.
c. adv. Concisely, briefly. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adverb]
shortlyc893
brieflya1300
shortc1374
in sumc1384
compendiously1398
in brief1423
roundlya1516
succinctly?1537
brief1557
succinct1593
abbreviately1599
compactly1603
laconically1631
presslya1637
compactedly1649
curtly1654
concisely1686
laconicly1709
straightforwardly1874
scantly1885
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 77 Very largely haue I inueighed against this vice elswhere, wherefore heere I will trusse it vp more succinct [printed surcinct].
4. Of persons, their speech, style, etc.: Characterized by verbal brevity and conciseness; terse.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > [adjective] > of persons
rare1526
spare1563
succinct1603
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 203 Apollo himselfe loveth brevitie, and is in his oracles verie succinct and pithy.
1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars To Rdr. His succinct style and termes.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1971 in Wks. (1640) III A strict and succinct style is that, where you can take away nothing without losse, and that losse to be manifest.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 225 The Saxon Annalist wont to be sober and succinct..runs..into such extravagant fansies [etc.].
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 468. ⁋8 I must grow more succinct.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1817) 211 A succinct and dry writer.
1958 S. J. Perelman Most of S. J. Perelman 491 Now, Messieurs, exposition is wearisome, so I will be succinct.
5. Of garments: Not ample or full, close-fitting, scant. archaic or poetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > that fits in specific way > close-fitting
straita1387
justc1440
sitting1440
close1488
well-fitted1590
close-bodied1677
succinct1714
tightish1775
tight1784
full-fashioned1812
skintight1838
snug1838
fully-fashioned1844
tight-fitting1846
close-fitting1870
slim1884
skin-fitting1915
skinny1915
slinky1921
tight-ass1969
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 643 His habit fit for speed succinct. View more context for this quotation]
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iii. 21 Four Knaves in Garbs succinct, a trusty Band.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 83 His vest succinct then girding round his waste.
1746 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley viii. 306 If any other [dress] can be contrived yet more succinct and tight.
1755 Monitor No. 21. I. 182 Some novelties of dress, viz. very low stays, and very succinct petticoats.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 160 [She] exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. iii. 38 Mere soldier uniform, succinct ‘blue coat, white linen gaiters’.
1893 J. A. Symonds Life Michelangelo I. ii. 66 Tuscan lads half draped in succinct tunics.
6. Of short duration, brief, curt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adjective]
shortc888
littleOE
shortlya1050
briefc1400
momentlya1425
small?a1439
momentany1447
momentaneous?a1450
stunta1450
momentaryc1485
momentane1510
hourlya1535
sudden1561
momentaneala1581
span-long1593
momentaneana1599
momental1606
narrow1611
timeless1657
concise1785
succinct1796
ultra-short1962
1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. vii. 331 With a succinct bow..he took a hasty leave.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. ii. 14 With the rope round their neck, their destiny may be succinct.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xi. 175 Captain Nares acknowledged our previous acquaintance with a succinct nod.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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