concise

Etymology

From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).

adj

  1. Brief, yet including all important information
  2. (obsolete) Physically short or truncated
    This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet. 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56

verb

  1. (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

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