Terse
Terse , adjective
[Latin tersus, past participle of tergere to rub or wipe off.]
1.
Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obsolete]
Many stones,... although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive.
2.
Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [Rare & Obsolete]
Your polite and terse gallants.
3.
Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence.
A poet, too, was there, whose verse
Was tender, musical, and terse.
“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.”