aphorize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of aphorize
1660–70; < Greek aphorízein to mark off, define, determine, equivalent to ap- ap- 2 + horízein to limit, define; see horizon
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If architecture is frozen music, as Goethe aphorized, then jazz is Art Deco on ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
But love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods and insecurities to the page.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2016
Yet Tuco can be quite chatty, forever aphorizing about “two kinds of people in this world” to Blondie’s simmering annoyance.
From Time ● Jun. 25, 2014
He is casually, almost off-handedly epigrammatic; his work yields a perennial harvest of quotable phrases without ever making this aphorizing seem the point of the exercise.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013
"Where's your wife, Paul?" asked Davis, abruptly, for he was half impatient under the aphorizing tone of his companion.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
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