Laconic

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 58

-al , la-kon′ik, -al, adj. expre ing in few words after the manner of the Laconians , Lacedæmonians , or Spartans : concise: pithy.— adv. Lacon′ically .— ns. Lac′onism , Lacon′icism , a concise style: a short, pithy phrase. [L.,—Gr.]