apophthegm

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Apophthegmat′ic, -al, pertaining to the nature of an apophthegm, pithy, sententious.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

La Rochefoucauld, expressing a commonplace with the penetrative terseness that made him a master of the apophthegm, pronounced it "not to be enough to have great qualities: a man must have the economy of them."

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

They made apophthegm take the place of message.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous 37in men of eminence to give way to merriment; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter themselves under this foolish apophthegm.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

The middle row, the first to be inscribed, deals with the Epicurean theory of atoms—not by apophthegm or aphorism, but with something of the fulness and technicality of a treatise.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)