Tersely

adv. [f. TERSE + -LY².] In a terse manner or style. † a. In a refined or elegant manner; elegantly, politely. Obs.

1599.  B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., Dram. Pers. Fastidious Brisk … swears tersely, and with variety.

1648.  Herrick, Hesper., Country Life, 27. Thus thou canst tearcely live to satisfie The belly chiefly; not the eye.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies (1662), II. Lincoln, 165. That one living in so ignorant and superstitious a generation could write so tercely.

  b.  In relation to language: Neatly, concisely.

1845.  Poe, E. B. Browning, Wks. 1863, III. 421. We might give a passage embodying the most elevated sentiment, most tersely and musically thus expressed.

1874.  Green, Short Hist., ix. § 10. 704. The cry of the York mob … expressed tersely the creed of the English trader.

1903.  Times, 1 April, 9/5. The Judge has tersely summed this up.