Termer vs Terser - What's the difference?
termer | terser |
(legal) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life.
(obsolete) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practise tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like.
(terse)
(obsolete) Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
(of speech or style) Brief, concise, to the point.
* 1907 , , title page:
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 4, author=Lewis Smith, work=the Guardian
, title= Abruptly or brusquely short.
As a noun termer
is one who has an estate for a term of years or for life.As an adjective terser is
comparative of terse.termer
English
Alternative forms
* termorNoun
(en noun)- (Ben Jonson)
terser
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----terse
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Adjective
(er)- "A consise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedias,"
Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?, passage=Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, "for the next 40 years", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.}}