- a variation of epigrammatic.
epigrammatical
Example Sentences
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The seriousness and solemnity of tragedy necessarily reject all pointed or epigrammatical expressions, all remote conceits and opposition of ideas.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
His first serious publication was the History of Louis XI., which is dry and epigrammatical in style, but displays considerable powers of research and impartiality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
Rhetorical and epigrammatical point and vigour are the special virtues of this system: its weaknesses are monotony of beat and lack of freedom and variety in sentence structure.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
I'm an epigrammatical Moses, Whose humorous tablets of stone Condemn affectations and poses— Excepting a few of my own.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
