“aphorize”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

aphorize

释义

aphorize, v. rare.|ˈæfəraɪz|
[ad. Gr. ἀϕορίζειν ‘to define,’ in mid. voice ‘to lay down determinate propositions,’ f. ἀϕ' = ἀπό off + ὁρίζ-ειν to set bounds, f. ὅρ-ος boundary. The English sense is taken from aphorism.]
To write or speak in aphorisms; to make terse general reflections.
1669Addr. Yng. Gentry Eng. 55 Tacitus himself aphorizeth..in his short and poynant conclusion.1824Coleridge Aids to Refl. 17 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.1860A. L. Windsor Ethica vii. 326 Aphorizing on the instability of human greatness.

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