apophthegmatize

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).
   • 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...1992, J. M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews