单词 | apophthegm |
释义 | apophthegmapothegmn. A terse, pointed saying, embodying an important truth in few words; a pithy or sententious maxim. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > [noun] saw9.. quideOE yedOE wordOE wisdomc1175 bysawe?c1225 riotc1330 sentencec1380 textc1386 dict1432 diction1477 redec1480 say1486 adage1530 commonplace?1531 adagy1534 soothsay1549 maxima1564 apophthegm1570 speech1575 gnome1577 aphorisma1593 imprese1593 spoke1594 symbol1594 maxim1605 wording1606 impress1610 motto1615 dictum1616 impresa1622 dictate1625 effate1650 sentiment1780 great thought1821 brocarda1856 text-motto1880 sententia1917 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1701/2 (margin) Apophthegma of Doctour Taylour. 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 106v His Apothegme or word, Cor vnum, via una. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 100/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Graue & pithie Apophthegmes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 23 The Apothegmes, or reputed replyes of wisdome, whereof many are to be seen in Laertius. View more context for this quotation 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 478 Johnson suddenly uttered..an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ 1813 J. Jebb Let. 10 Dec. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 170 The apothegms too, and aculeated sayings of the ancients. 1832 W. Scott Talisman (1854) 359 Hearing his misery made..the ground of apothegms and proverbs. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. v. 514 The rare talent of compressing a mass of profound thought into an apophthegm. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. viii. xxix. 593 The admirable Hebrew apophthegm, ‘Learn to say, “I do not know”.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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