aphorist

[Eng. aphoris (m)t.] A compiler of aphorisms. "He took this occasion of farther clearing and justifying what he had written against the aphorist ." Nelson: Life of Bp . Bull , p. 246. IMG:content-0607.png:[blocks in formation] [Eng. aphorist , -ic, -ical; or aphoris (m), -tic, -tical. In Fr. aphorist i que ; Port, aphoristico .] [APHORISM.] Pertaining to an aphorism; in the form of an aphorism; in short, detached sentences like an aphorism because the style of his conversation is le flowing and diffusive-le expansive-more apt to clothe itself in a keen, sparkling aphoristic form."De Quincey: Works (ed. 1863), vol. ii., p. 232.