succinct

adj

1. (archaic)Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.

   “Near-synonyms: bundled up, cinched, engirdled, girdled”

   “The Tovvne is moſt beautified, by a vaſt Garden of the Kings, ſuccinct vvith a great tovvred mud-vvall, larger than the Circuit of the Citie.”

   “Svvift to the hall they haſte; aſide they lay / Their garments, and ſuccinct, the victims [animals] ſlay.”

   “Placid her pose, the calm of energy; / And over her broad brow in many a round / (That loosened would have gilt her garment's hem), / Succinct, as toil prescribes, the hair was wound / In lustrous coils, a natural diadem.”

2. (archaic, broadly)Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.
3. (also, archaic, poetic)Of clothes: not loose; close-fitting, tight-fitting.

   “[W]ings he vvore / Of many a colourd plume ſprinkl'd vvith Gold, / His habit fit for ſpeed ſuccinct, and held / Before his decent ſteps a Silver vvand.”

   “Four Knaves in garbs ſuccinct, a truſty band, / Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand; […]”

   “During this time, sister Ursula, to give her for the last time her conventual name, exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.”

   “[S]he could not but contrast the splendour of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct 'blue coat, white linen gaiters,' and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.”

4. (figuratively)Compressed into a small area; compact.

   “Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.”

   “The admirable and inimitable feature of Man, ſupplied and adorned vvith the innumerable teſtimonies of a Deitie: inſomuch, that not vvithout great cauſe hee is ſtiled a little and ſuccinct vvorld vvithin himſelfe; in vvhom there is a perſpicuous knovvledge to diſtinguiſh good from euill, vvhich is the rule by vvhich to direct all the neceſſarie actions of humane life: […]”

   “Their poor bits of preciosities and heirlooms they have with them; made up in succinct bundles, stowed on ticketed baggage-wains: […]”

   “To stay a square-rigged ship is an affair of knowledge and swift sight: and a man used to the succinct evolutions of a schooner will always tend to be too hasty with a brig.”

5. (figuratively)Of an action, etc.: lasting a short time; brief, curt.

   “Then ſuddenly, and vvith a ſuccinct bovv, bidding them all good bye, he took a haſty leave; […]”

   “With the rope round their neck, their destiny may be succinct!”

   “From a little behind, with his Sunday hat tilted forward over his brow and a cigar glowing between his lips, Captain Nares acknowledged our previous acquaintance with a succinct nod.”

6. (figuratively)Of speech or writing: brief and to the point; concise.

   “You should give clear, succinct information to the clients.”

   “[…] Apollo himſelfe loveth brevitie, and is in his oracles verie ſuccinct and pithy; […]”

   “A ſtrict and ſuccinct ſtyle is that, vvhere you can take avvay nothing vvithout loſſe, and that loſſe to be manifeſt.”

   “[T]he Saxon Annaliſt vvont to be ſober and ſuccinct, […] runs on a ſudden into ſuch extravagant fanſies and metaphors, as bare him quite beſide the ſcope of being underſtood.”

   “But I must grow more succinct, and, as a Spectator, give an account of this extraordinary man, who, in his way, never had an equal in any age before him or in that wherein he lived.”

adv

1. (obsolete)Synonym of succinctly (“briefly, concisely”).

   “Very largely haue I inueighed againſt this vice [gluttony] elſvvhere, vvherefore heere I vvill truſſe it vp more ſurcinct;^([sic – meaning succinct]) […]”