- a variation of epigrammatic.
epigrammatical
Example Sentences
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Rhetorical and epigrammatical point and vigour are the special virtues of this system: its weaknesses are monotony of beat and lack of freedom and variety in sentence structure.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
Religious meditation does not harmonise with epigrammatical satire.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter
Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
The former became by degrees quite epigrammatical in his poems, terse in "Minna," laconic in "Emilia Galotti,"—it was not till afterwards that he returned to that serene /naiveté/ which becomes him so well in "Nathan."
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
