WORD OF THE DAY: PAUCILOQUENT

PAUCILOQUENT
 
ADJ.
speaking briefly; using few words in speech or conversation; laconic ...1656 rare
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ETYMOLOGY
from pauci- (comb. form. of Latin paucus few, little) + Latin loquentem (speaking)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Pauciloquent (pauciloquus) that speaketh little
From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such Hard Words, of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with Etymologies, Definitions and Historical Observations on the same
- Thomas Blount

EXAMPLE
"...religious melancholy, with reservedness; weeping, howling, and pauciloquent; distressing complaints; dread of being left alone, of apparitions, of dead persons, ghosts, crawling worms, thieves, etc..."
From: Special Therapeutics, According to Homoeopathic Principles
- Franz Hartmann
Third Volume. Mental Diseases
Edited by Dr. G.H. G. Jahr
Translated by John M. Galloway, 1857