brevitic
adjUK /bɹɛˈvɪtɪk/
1
Rare Embodying brevity.
- If the life of some animals is short, so is their office small. The frame of a living thing seems proportional in duration, elegance, and strength, to the object of its life. The more perfect, according to our notions, the mechanism of a creature, the more important seems its operations. Some live but one summer ; some only a day ; many are born, grow old, and die, all in the space of an hour. Still how important, in the whole, may these brevitic existences be !1838, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 233:
- 1931: Francis W. Chapman, Great Pyramid of Ghizeh from the Aspect of Symbolism and Religion, reprint edition (1997 September 1), page 139 (Kessinger Publishing Co; →ISBN And, indeed, we must believe that Cheops, often anciently called “ the glorious,” in a graphic but wordless suggestiveness aims to convey this ; and as Paul did convey until his word “ eirene,” no doubt for euphonic and brevitic advantage, was inadequately translated in its present abbreviated form.