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aphorismer en · NOUN

Etymology

From aphorism + -er.

Meanings

1. (rare) A dealer in aphorisms.
   • An aphorismer who called himself after Kapila, the Sankhya’s reputed founder, sought to revive it [the classical Sankhya] around the fourteenth century. 1976, José Pereira, editor, Hindu theology: a reader, Garden City, NY: Image Books, page 54:
   • Another famous aphorismer is Prince Bismarck. But the sayings of the Prince are not as a rule so terse as those of many of his illustrious equals. 1881 December 3, “European Intrigues”, in Essex Standard, volume 51, number 2660, Colchester, England, page 4:
   • If they would call themselves aphorismers— as they are lovers of sophistry; those who practice sophistry; they are but lovers of fallacious arguments or false reasoning. 1909, May Barnard Wiltse, Theorem Or Teleology of Spiritualism, New Rockford, ND: Eddy County Provost, page 65:
   • As a philosopher and epigrammer and aphorismer he [Benjamin Franklin] was in a class by himself. 1912 [1903], Simeon Ford, A Few Remarks, 4th edition, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 353:
   • And for the discipline propounded, seeing that it hath been inevitably proved, that the natural and fundamental causes of political happiness in all governments are the same, and that this church-discipline is taught in the word of God, and, as we see, agrees according to wish with all such states as have received it ; we may infallibly assure ourselves that it will as well agree with monarchy, though all the tribe of Aphorismers and Politicasters would persuade us there be secret and mysterious reasons against it. 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation of Church-Discipline in England:

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