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apothegmatise

apothegmatise is the alternative form of apothegmatize.

Meaning of apothegmatize

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

Forms of apothegmatise

third-person singular presentapothegmatises
present participleapothegmatising
past participleapothegmatised
pastapothegmatised

Questions about apothegmatise

What is apothegmatise the alternative form of?
Apothegmatise is the alternative form of apothegmatize.

Words near apothegmatise in the dictionary

  1. apothecium
  2. apothegm
  3. apothegmatic
  4. apothegmatical
  5. apothegmatically
  6. apothegmatise
  7. apothegmatised
  8. apothegmatises
  9. apothegmatising
  10. apothegmatist
  11. apothegmatists

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