01 a. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
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Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.[Obs.]“Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive.” — Sir T. Browne.
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Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.[R. & Obs.]
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Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.“Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence.” — Macaulay.“A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse.” — Longfellow.““In eight terse lines has Phaedrus told (So frugal were the bards of old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that short space.””