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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Epigrammatic \Ep`i*gram*mat"ic\, Epigrammatical
\Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al\, [L. epigrammaticus: cf F.
['e]pigrammatique.]
1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an
epigrammatical poet.
2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an
epigram; pointed; piquant; as epigrammatic style, wit, or
sallies of fancy.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
epigrammatic
adj : terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to
apothegmatic instruction" [syn: {aphoristic}, {apothegmatic}]
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