a. Obs. [f. LACONIC a. + -AL.] = LACONIC a.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 236. The Epistles of Nucillus were so Laconicall and shorte.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. (1594), 121. Laconicall sayings, that is, short and sententious.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 338. Proposing forsooth a streight and laconicall manner of life.
1627. Bp. Hall, Epist., I. v. 282. All that Laconicall discipline pleased him well.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Poems (1677), 134. The Spartans … studying their Laconical Brevity.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 362. Distinctions and Laconical Evasions.
