aphorize

i. [Gr. ἀφορίζω ( aphorizo ) = (1) to mark out by boundaries; (2) to limit, to define.] To utter or write an aphorism. "In order to get the full sense of a word, we should first present to our minds the visual image that forms its primary meaning. Draw lines of different colours round the different counties of England, and then cut out each separately, as in the common riay-maps that children take to pieces and put together, so that each district can be contemplated apart from the rest, as a whole in itself. This twofold act of circumscribing and detaching, when it is excited by the mind on subjects of reflection and reason, is to aphorize , and the result an aphorism." Cole ridge: Aids to Reflec tion (ed. 1839), pp. 16, 17.