apothegmatize

English

Verb

apothegmatize (third-person singular simple present apothegmatizes, present participle apothegmatizing, simple past and past participle apothegmatized)

1. (intransitive) To utter apothegms (short witty sayings).
   • 1992, J. M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews:

     This occurs with the stylization of the impasse of reflexive consciousness, of the movement of the mind that we can call A therefore not-A and that Beckett apothegmatizes in the phrase "imagination dead imagine" and elsewhere explicates as "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."

References

• “apothegmatize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.