† laˈconical, a. Obs.
[f. laconic a. + -al1.]
= laconic a.
| 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 236 The Epistles of Nucillus were so Laconicall and shorte. 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 121 Laconicall sayings, that is, short and sententious. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 338 Proposing forsooth a streight and laconicall manner of life. 1627 Bp. Hall Epist. i. v. 282 All that Laconicall discipline pleased him well. a 1658 Cleveland Poems (1677) 134 The Spartans..studying their Laconical Brevity. 1698 Fryer E. India & P. 362 Distinctions and Laconical Evasions. |