Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Concise

Concise , adjective

[Latin concisus cut off, short, past participle of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to English shed, transitive verb; compare French concis.]

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.
The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. — B. Jonson
Where the author is... too brief and concise, amplify a little. — I. Watts