a. [f. L. epigrammat-, Gr. ἐπιγραμματ-, stem of ἐπίγραμμα (see EPIGRAM) + -IC.] Of or pertaining to epigrams; of the nature, or in the style, of an epigram; concise, pointed.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Praise of Poverty, Wks. 1730, I. 94. An epigrammatick poem is more charming than Horace or Virgil.
1750. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1834), II. No. 213. 335. The sting is very epigrammatic.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 674/2. Martial, of Spain, the epigrammatic poet.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., I. i. 18. The logic of wit, conveyed in smooth and strong epigrammatic couplets.
1841–4. Emerson, Ess., xvi. Manners, Wks. (Bohn), I. 217. Scott’s … lords brave each other in smart epigrammatic speeches.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., V. xli. 4. He wrote with vivacity and sometimes with epigrammatic terseness.
