Lapidary vs Laconic - What's the difference?
lapidary | laconic |
A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.
:2005 Peter G. Read, "Gemmology"
:*in the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones.
An expert in gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
(archaic) A treatise on precious stones.
Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise; embodying the refinement and precision characteristic of stone-cutting.
:* 2000': The sole truth was that supplied by mathematics or by such '''lapidary propositions as “What's done cannot be undone,” which was irrefutably correct. — Karen Armstrong, ''The Battle for God (Harper 2004, p. 71)
Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
* Alexander Pope
* Welwood
As adjectives the difference between lapidary and laconic
is that lapidary is pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them while laconic is using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.As a noun lapidary
is a person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems.lapidary
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(wikipedia lapidary)Noun
(lapidaries)Derived terms
* lapidary's lathe * lapidary's mill * lapidary's wheelAdjective
(en adjective)laconic
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(Laconic phrase)Adjective
(en adjective)- I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.
- His sense was strong and his style laconic .