Definition of apophthegm in English:

apophthegm

(US apothegm)

noun ˈapəθɛmˈæpəˌθɛm

A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism.
格言，箴言；警句
the apophthegm ‘tomorrow is another day’
Example sentencesExamples
- You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world.
- Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery.
- There is an apothegm of his, from 1959, that goes, ‘What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.’
- At my request, one young Chinese woman (reared for most of her life in the United States) wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation.
- It was shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other.
- This apothegm seems close to (what I guess was) the intended spirit of his comment, though it can't be used directly as a predicate applied to ‘the spelling reforms’, thus requiring additional restructuring of the phrase.
- That should give you the flavor of this very enjoyable book; but I can't resist adding a couple of the apothegms that stood out to me.
- The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
- The point of the apophthegm is that after drinking wine he deprived himself of water until he got ill, a point lost by the translation here.
- If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
- These apothegms are, all of them, the stuff of professional politics.
- His apophthegm, or maxim by which he is remembered, is: ‘All men are bad’ an unambiguous example of selection bias.
Synonyms
maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram, gnome

Derivatives

apophthegmatic

adjective apəθɛɡˈmatɪk

A sequence of beautiful frames will not make up a good movie and neither will a selection of apothegmatic lines picked up from a philosophy manual.
Example sentencesExamples
- Boswell's Life retains its extraordinary immediacy; it has recorded his soundbites for posterity and shaped history's opinion of the learned, apophthegmatic Doctor.
- But the text consists for the most part of apophthegmatic generalizations about the topic, about the superficiality, the confusion and ineffectiveness of social theory about ageing and old people, and about the fundamentally paradoxical and inconsistent situation of these old people in the social structure.
- Although my grandfather had uttered many maxims or phrases of speech which have stuck with me, and which I am frequently conscious of as being maxims of action, or apothegmatic summaries of reasons for my behavior, what it most cogently gave me was a silent code of behavior toward which, in my most elevated moments, I live up.
- For brevity is both an apophthegmatic thing and a gnomic one, and it is more clever to gather much thought in a small space, just as in seeds the potentialities of whole trees are gathered.
- They are terse, allusive, disconnected, apothegmatic and hard to follow.
- As Jane's work got better and better - and readers noticed - my language and structure departed from its old habits and veered away from the kind of lyric that Jane was writing, toward irony and an apothegmatic style.
- Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
- There are terse and objective descriptions of observed phenomena, apothegmatic passages, riddles and allegories, as well as fanciful narratives.
- The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences.
- The picture is completed by his apophthegmatic liner notes in English, French and German.
- Before Socrates, Greek philosophers were seers rather than reasoners: the apophthegmatic character of their utterances affects to be the result rather of intuition than of reasoning.
- The first half, therefore, is static, full of apothegmatic insights and reflections about human nature.
- The sutra states the doctrine in a apophthegmatic form; the bhasya is a commentary on it; and the vartika is an elucidation of the commentary.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French apophthegme or modern Latin apothegma, from Greek, from apophthengesthai 'speak out'.

Definition of apothegm in US English:

apothegm

(British apophthegm)

nounˈæpəˌθɛmˈapəˌTHem

A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism.
格言，箴言；警句
the apothegm “tomorrow is another day”
Example sentencesExamples
- That should give you the flavor of this very enjoyable book; but I can't resist adding a couple of the apothegms that stood out to me.
- There is an apothegm of his, from 1959, that goes, ‘What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.’
- At my request, one young Chinese woman (reared for most of her life in the United States) wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation.
- You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world.
- Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery.
- These apothegms are, all of them, the stuff of professional politics.
- It was shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other.
- His apophthegm, or maxim by which he is remembered, is: ‘All men are bad’ an unambiguous example of selection bias.
- The point of the apophthegm is that after drinking wine he deprived himself of water until he got ill, a point lost by the translation here.
- The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind.
- This apothegm seems close to (what I guess was) the intended spirit of his comment, though it can't be used directly as a predicate applied to ‘the spelling reforms’, thus requiring additional restructuring of the phrase.
- If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end.
Synonyms
maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram, gnome

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French apophthegme or modern Latin apothegma, from Greek, from apophthengesthai ‘speak out’.

单词	apophthegm
释义	Definition of apophthegm in English: apophthegm (US apothegm) noun ˈapəθɛmˈæpəˌθɛm A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism. 格言，箴言；警句 the apophthegm ‘tomorrow is another day’ Example sentencesExamples You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world. Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery. There is an apothegm of his, from 1959, that goes, ‘What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.’ At my request, one young Chinese woman (reared for most of her life in the United States) wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation. It was shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other. This apothegm seems close to (what I guess was) the intended spirit of his comment, though it can't be used directly as a predicate applied to ‘the spelling reforms’, thus requiring additional restructuring of the phrase. That should give you the flavor of this very enjoyable book; but I can't resist adding a couple of the apothegms that stood out to me. The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind. The point of the apophthegm is that after drinking wine he deprived himself of water until he got ill, a point lost by the translation here. If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end. These apothegms are, all of them, the stuff of professional politics. His apophthegm, or maxim by which he is remembered, is: ‘All men are bad’ an unambiguous example of selection bias. Synonyms maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram, gnome Derivatives apophthegmatic adjective apəθɛɡˈmatɪk A sequence of beautiful frames will not make up a good movie and neither will a selection of apothegmatic lines picked up from a philosophy manual. Example sentencesExamples Boswell's Life retains its extraordinary immediacy; it has recorded his soundbites for posterity and shaped history's opinion of the learned, apophthegmatic Doctor. But the text consists for the most part of apophthegmatic generalizations about the topic, about the superficiality, the confusion and ineffectiveness of social theory about ageing and old people, and about the fundamentally paradoxical and inconsistent situation of these old people in the social structure. Although my grandfather had uttered many maxims or phrases of speech which have stuck with me, and which I am frequently conscious of as being maxims of action, or apothegmatic summaries of reasons for my behavior, what it most cogently gave me was a silent code of behavior toward which, in my most elevated moments, I live up. For brevity is both an apophthegmatic thing and a gnomic one, and it is more clever to gather much thought in a small space, just as in seeds the potentialities of whole trees are gathered. They are terse, allusive, disconnected, apothegmatic and hard to follow. As Jane's work got better and better - and readers noticed - my language and structure departed from its old habits and veered away from the kind of lyric that Jane was writing, toward irony and an apothegmatic style. Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill. There are terse and objective descriptions of observed phenomena, apothegmatic passages, riddles and allegories, as well as fanciful narratives. The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences. The picture is completed by his apophthegmatic liner notes in English, French and German. Before Socrates, Greek philosophers were seers rather than reasoners: the apophthegmatic character of their utterances affects to be the result rather of intuition than of reasoning. The first half, therefore, is static, full of apothegmatic insights and reflections about human nature. The sutra states the doctrine in a apophthegmatic form; the bhasya is a commentary on it; and the vartika is an elucidation of the commentary. Origin Mid 16th century: from French apophthegme or modern Latin apothegma, from Greek, from apophthengesthai 'speak out'. Definition of apothegm in US English: apothegm (British apophthegm) nounˈæpəˌθɛmˈapəˌTHem A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism. 格言，箴言；警句 the apothegm “tomorrow is another day” Example sentencesExamples That should give you the flavor of this very enjoyable book; but I can't resist adding a couple of the apothegms that stood out to me. There is an apothegm of his, from 1959, that goes, ‘What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.’ At my request, one young Chinese woman (reared for most of her life in the United States) wrote the apothegm with only a moment's hesitation. You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world. Prose romances were rewritten as plays, old plays were rewritten as new, classical texts were translated, adapted, and plundered for moral sententiae, apothegms, and imagery. These apothegms are, all of them, the stuff of professional politics. It was shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other. His apophthegm, or maxim by which he is remembered, is: ‘All men are bad’ an unambiguous example of selection bias. The point of the apophthegm is that after drinking wine he deprived himself of water until he got ill, a point lost by the translation here. The interface between syntax and pragmatics may in general be summarized in a Kantian apophthegm: pragmatics without syntax is empty; syntax without pragmatics is blind. This apothegm seems close to (what I guess was) the intended spirit of his comment, though it can't be used directly as a predicate applied to ‘the spelling reforms’, thus requiring additional restructuring of the phrase. If anything he belabours the point overmuch in this play, so that, between the incessantly hammered-home moral point and his inability to speak in anything but apophthegms, one is quite tired out by the end. Synonyms maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram, gnome Origin Mid 16th century: from French apophthegme or modern Latin apothegma, from Greek, from apophthengesthai ‘speak out’.
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