Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LA-CON'IC, or LA-CON'IC-AL
LA-CON'IC, or LA-CON'IC-AL, a. [Fr. laconique; L. laconicus; from Laconia or Lacones, the Spartans.]
- Short; brief; pithy; sententious; expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Spartans; as, a laconic phrase. Pope.
- Pertaining to Sparta or Lacedemonia. Trans. of Pausanias. – D'Anville.
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