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Epigrammatic

Epigrammatic \Ep`i*gram*mat"ic\, Epigrammatical \Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al\, [L. epigrammaticus: cf. F.

  1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

  2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
epigrammatic

1704, shortened from epigrammatical (c.1600); see epigram.

Wiktionary
epigrammatic

a. 1 having the characteristics of an epigram 2 containing or using epigrams

WordNet
epigrammatic

adj. terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction" [syn: aphoristic, apothegmatic]

Usage examples of "epigrammatic".

It should come as no surprise that the period ends with another earnest Victorian making wonderful, irreverent fun of respectability and earnestness, putting Victorianism in its final place, as he so often did, with epigrammatic and telling wit.

These flourished after the theological poets, and were called sages, because they excelled other men in a certain laudable line of life, and summed up some moral precepts in epigrammatic sayings.