brief
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1. brief - Noun
2. brief - Adjective
3. brief - Verb
4. brief - Adverb
6. brief - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Short in duration.
Concise; terse; succinct.
Rife; common; prevalent.
Briefly.
Soon; quickly.
A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
An epitome.
An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.
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Anger is a brief madness.
Struggling to be brief I become obscure.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Brief encounters can result in long relationships.
A foolish judge passes brief sentence.