Also 7 brachil-, 8 brachyology. [ad. Gr. βραχυλογία, in med.L. brachiologia, f. βραχύ-ς short + -λογία speech: see -LOGY. Cf. F. brachylogie.] Conciseness of speech, laconism; concr. a condensed expression.
[1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 222. Brachiologa … or the Cutted comma.]
1623. Cockeram, Brachilogies, short speeches.
1716. M. Davies, in Athen. Britan., II. To Reader xlv. In the Poet’s Brachyology, Aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo.
1866. Ellicott, On 2 Thess. ii. 7. A simple and intelligible brachylogy.
1882–3. Schaff, in Herzog’s Encycl. Rel. Knowl., III. 2293. Delitzsch specifies brachylogy as characteristic of its [the Talmud’s] style.
