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apothegmatize

apothegmatize verb: to utter apothegms (short witty sayings).

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 apothegmatize

third-person singular presentapothegmatizes
present participleapothegmatizing
past participleapothegmatized
pastapothegmatized

Questions about apothegmatize

What does apothegmatize mean?
Apothegmatize means to utter apothegms (short witty sayings).
What part of speech is apothegmatize?
Apothegmatize is a verb.
What is the past tense of apothegmatize?
The past tense of apothegmatize is apothegmatized.

Words near apothegmatize in the dictionary

  1. apothegmatised
  2. apothegmatises
  3. apothegmatising
  4. apothegmatist
  5. apothegmatists
  6. apothegmatize
  7. apothegmatized
  8. apothegmatizes
  9. apothegmatizing
  10. apothegmic
  11. apothegms

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