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Laconical
Laconic La*con"ic, Laconical La*con"ic*al, a. [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. ??, fr. ?? a Laconian, Laced[ae]monian, or Spartan: cf. F. laconique.] 1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. --Pope. His sense was strong and his style laconic. --Welwood. 2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well. --Bp. Hall. Syn: Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy. Usage: Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
Laconical
Laconical La*con"ic*al, a. See Laconic, a.
Laconically
Laconically La*con"ic*al*ly, adv. In a laconic manner.

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- before in social media at such a large scale. Originally, StatusNet (named Laconica at the time) was launched with a communication protocol designed specifically...
- Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus 1 2 3. Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, 230c. Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica (Sayings of Spartans), 217a. This work may or may not...
- The idiom originates in the classical Gr**** of Plutarch's Apophthegmata Laconica, and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in Nicolas Udall's...
- for Identi.ca, a microblogging service. Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, StatusNet in 2010, and finally to GNU social in 2012. In December 2012...
- Λακωνικά – apophthegmata Laconica) 17. Institutions of the Spartans (Τὰ παλαιὰ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ἐπιτηδεύματα – Instituta Laconica) 18. Sayings of the Spartan...
- November 2020 at the Wayback Machine Plutarch, /main.html Apophthegmata Laconica, section "Leonidas, son of Anaxandridas", saying 6, Vol. III of the Loeb...
- The original implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the Laconica software, which changed its name to StatusNet in August 2009. Identi.ca...
- Odites laconica is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1927. It is found in South Africa. The wingspan is about...
- that included support for a decentralized social networking service was Laconica, a microblogging platform which implemented the OpenMicroBlogging protocol...
- Persian army as a group. Plutarch cites the phrase in his Apophthegmata Laconica ("Sayings of Spartans"). The exchange between Leonidas and Xerxes occurs...