▪ I. † conˈcinne, a. Obs.
[ad. L. concinn-us skilfully put together, well-adjusted.]
Well fitted together, skilfully arranged; harmonious.
| 1569 Newton Cicero's Olde Age 7 b, Which, when we read, we are rauished with the elegancie and concinne vehemencie thereof. a 1625 Boys Wks. (1630) 137 Beauty consists in variety of colours, and in a concinne disposition of sundry different parts. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 353 The analogy..is concinne and proper. |
Hence † conˈcinneness.
| 1654 H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 32 The..concinnesse of his metaphors. 1671 True Nonconf. 247 The greater exactness of phrase, attainable in a Set-form..the propriety, concinneness and gravity, that may be in [it]. |
▪ II. † conˈcinne, v. Obs.
[ad. L. concinnā-re.]
= concinnate v.
| a 1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. i. vii. §3 (1622) 53 Polishing and concinning their History, so smoothly, that there should not haue bene found the least note of diuersity. |