epigrammatical

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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

Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

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 Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

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 Johnson, Samuel

The former became by degrees quite epigrammatical in his poems, terse in "Minna," laconic in "Emilia Galotti,"—it was not till afterwards that he returned to that serene /naiveté/ which becomes him so well in "Nathan."

From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Oxenford, John