aphorismer

English

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Etymology

From aphorism +‎ -er.

Noun

aphorismer (plural aphorismers)

(rare) A dealer in aphorisms.
- 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation of Church-Discipline in England:
  And for the discipline propounded, seeing that it hath been inevitably proved, that the natural and fundamental causes of political happiness in all governments are the same, and that this church-discipline is taught in the word of God, and, as we see, agrees according to wish with all such states as have received it ; we may infallibly assure ourselves that it will as well agree with monarchy, though all the tribe of Aphorismers and Politicasters would persuade us there be secret and mysterious reasons against it.
- 1881 December 3, “European Intrigues”, in Essex Standard, volume 51, number 2660, Colchester, England, page 4:
  Another famous aphorismer is Prince Bismarck. But the sayings of the Prince are not as a rule so terse as those of many of his illustrious equals.
- 1912 [1903], Simeon Ford, A Few Remarks, 4th edition, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 353:
  As a philosopher and epigrammer and aphorismer he [Benjamin Franklin] was in a class by himself.
- 1909, May Barnard Wiltse, Theorem Or Teleology of Spiritualism, New Rockford, ND: Eddy County Provost, page 65:
  If they would call themselves aphorismers— as they are lovers of sophistry; those who practice sophistry; they are but lovers of fallacious arguments or false reasoning.
- 1976, José Pereira, editor, Hindu theology: a reader, Garden City, NY: Image Books, page 54:
  An aphorismer who called himself after Kapila, the Sankhya’s reputed founder, sought to revive it [the classical Sankhya] around the fourteenth century.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “aphorismer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)