Obs. [ad. L. concinn-us skillfully put together, well-adjusted.] Well fitted together, skillfully arranged; harmonious.
1569. Newton, Cicero’s Olde Age, 7 b. Which, when we read, we are rauished with the elegancie and concinne vehemencie thereof.
a. 1625. Boys, Wks. (1630), 137. Beauty consists in variety of colours, and in a concinne disposition of sundry different parts.
1659. H. L’Estrange, Alliance Div. Off., 353. The analogy … is concinne and proper.
Hence † Concinneness.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 32. The … concinnesse of his metaphors.
1671. True Nonconf., 247. The greater exactness of phrase, attainable in a Set-form … the propriety, concinneness and gravity, that may be in [it].
