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.
| [1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 222 Brachiologa, or the Cutted comma.] 1623 Cockeram, Brachilogies, short speeches. 1716 M. Davies in Athen. Britan. II. To Reader xlv, In the Poet's Brachyology, Aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo. 1866 Ellicott On 2 Thess. iii. 7 A simple and intelligible brachylogy. 1882–3 Schaff in Herzog's Encycl. Rel. Knowl. III. 2293 Delitzsch specifies brachylogy as characteristic of its [the Talmud's] style. |