The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Succinct \Suc*cinct"\, a. [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to
gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird.
Cf. Cincture.]
1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
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His habit fit for speed succinct. --Milton.
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2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
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Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
--Roscommon.
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The shortest and most succinct model that ever
grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind.
--South.
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Syn: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic;
terse.
[1913 Webster] -- Suc*cinct"ly, adv. --
Suc*cinct"ness, n.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "succinct":
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aphoristic, aposiopestic,
axiomatic, blunt, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact,
compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp,
curt, curtal, curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, elliptic,
epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, instantaneous,
laconic, little, low, pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial,
pruned, pungent, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet,
shortened, summary, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight,
to the point, transient, truncated