Aphorismer

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(rare) A dealer in aphorisms..

Example Sentences

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.

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.

As a philosopher and epigrammer and aphorismer he [Benjamin Franklin] was in a class by himself.

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.

An aphorismer who called himself after Kapila, the Sankhya’s reputed founder, sought to revive it [the classical Sankhya] around the fourteenth century.

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