Definition of Brief

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Definition of Brief

Brief

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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Brief Quotations

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Brief Translations

brief in Afrikaans is kort
brief in Danish is kort
brief in Dutch is kortstondig, kort
brief in German is kurz, Auftrag, instruieren, kurz
brief in Italian is breve
brief in Latin is concisus, brevis
brief in Norwegian is kort
brief in Swedish is kortvarig, kort, kort

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