单词 | aphorize |
释义 | aphorizev. rare. To write or speak in aphorisms; to make terse general reflections. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > speak in maxims [verb (intransitive)] to sentence it1628 saw1648 aphorize1669 axiomatize1716 apophthegmatize1818 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 55 Tacitus himself aphorizeth..in his short and poynant conclusion. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 19 This twofold act of circumscribing, and detaching, when it is exerted by the mind on subjects of reflection and reason, is to aphorize, and the result an aphorism. 1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica vii. 326 Aphorizing on the instability of human greatness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1669 |
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