Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to aphorisms; having the form of an aphorism; containing aphorisms. An equivalent form is aphorismatic.
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- adjective Relating to
aphorisms , or having the form of an aphorism.
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Examples
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That sets the key, so to speak; that ensures that the Universe shall come flowing in, not in a continuous rush, but in aphorismic drops.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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That sets the key, so to speak; that ensures that the Universe shall come flowing in, not in a continuous rush, but in aphorismic drops.
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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When he gets out of this aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the slovenliness of the English.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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An aphorismic infrastructure pervades the Harrison camp.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In Lincoln, we see a somewhat coarse Midwestern lawyer who uses folksy, aphorismic anecdotes to disarm his opponents.
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