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aphorism
aphorism , short, pithy statement of an evident truth concerned with life or nature; distinguished from the axiom because its truth is not capable of scientific demonstration. Hippocrates was the first to use the term for his Aphorisms, briefly stated medical principles. Note his famous opening ... Read more
Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles 1592-1644, English poet. His best-known work is Emblems (1635), a book of moral and religious verse. Though not an ardent royalist, he wrote pamphlets during the Commonwealth upholding the divine right of kings. Enchiridion (1640) is his collection of prose aphorisms. ... Read more
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer 1950-, American artist, b. Gallipolis, Ohio. She links text and image in works of art composed of short aphorisms or longer declarations. Influenced by Dada , conceptual art, and feminism, her works range from printed signs to LED word sculptures and from a huge electronic billboard i... Read more
functionalism
functionalism in art and architecture, an aesthetic doctrine developed in the early 20th cent. out of Louis Henry Sullivan's aphorism that form ever follows function. Functionalist architects and artists design utilitarian structures in which the interior program dictates the outward form, without ... Read more
Panini
Panini , fl. c.400 BC, Indian grammarian. His Ashtādhyāyī [eight books] (tr. 1891) is one of the earliest works of descriptive linguistics and is also the first individually authored treatise on Sanskrit. Each of its 3,995 rules governing roots and suffixes is introduced in a sutra... Read more
Hans Guido Bülow, Freiherr von
Hans Guido Bülow, Freiherr von , 1830-94, German pianist and conductor. After hearing Wagner 's Lohengrin in 1850 at Weimar under Liszt 's direction, he studied piano with Liszt and later conducted the premieres of several of Wagner's operas. In 1857 he married Liszt's daughter Cosima, who ... Read more
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly , 1903-74, English critic and editor, b. Coventry, England. After attending the Univ. of Oxford, he began his career as a journalist. With Stephen Spender he founded Horizon (1939-49), a small literary magazine that reflected Connolly's own iconoclastic and mordant attitudes towar... Read more
Sir William Osler
Sir William Osler , 1849-1919, Canadian physician, M.D. McGill Univ., 1872. Renowned as a physician and as a medical historian, he was also the most brilliant and influential teacher of medicine in his day. He was professor at McGill (1875-84), the Univ. of Pennsylvania (1884-89), Johns Hopkins (188... Read more
proverb
proverb short statement of wisdom or advice that has passed into general use. More homely than aphorisms, proverbs generally refer to common experience and are often expressed in metaphor, alliteration, or rhyme, e.g., "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," "When the cat's away, the m... Read more
Hippocrates
Hippocrates , c.460-c.370 BC, Greek physician, recognized as the father of medicine. He is believed to have been born on the island of Cos, to have studied under his father, a physician, to have traveled for some time, perhaps studying in Athens, and to have then returned to practice, teach, and wri... Read more

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aphorism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition aphorism , short, pithy statement of an evident truth concerned with life or nature...scientific demonstration. Hippocrates was the first to use the term for his Aphorisms, briefly stated medical principles. Note his famous opening sentence...
Edgar Watson Howe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...romantic novels and coined widely circulated aphorisms. Edgar Howe was born on May 3, 1853...fame as a commonsense coiner of curdled aphorisms. His domestic life may well have helped...himself skilled in creating cynical aphorisms. Howe died in Atchison on Oct. 3...
Philosophy of Science, History of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...enumeration ( Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism 69). Bacon famously compares the proper...its own. ( Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism 95) Bacon is often referred to as the...instance of the fingerpost" (described in Aphorism 36 of Book II), which is designed to...
Widow’s Cruse
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...side. Kalecki ’ s equation has given rise to the aphorism — attributed to Kalecki, but which can be found...spend, and workers spend what they earn. ” This aphorism shows the asymmetry in capitalist relations: Capitalists can...
Mistake
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice ...reasonable, will not. This last point is reflected in the aphorism "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." The traditional approach...must prove the crime. Third, and contrary to the popular aphorism, mistakes of law frequently exculpate and cannot be neatly...
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...dedicated to the gastronomes of Paris), a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, anecdotes, and essays on subjects as diverse...his facility with a phrase — so quotable that his aphorisms have become clich é s — and finally his...
Macedonians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...4 • FOLKLORE Most of Macedonia's colorful folklore consists of folktales and aphorisms (witty sayings). The following are typical aphorisms: "Falsehoods have short legs" (lies are soon found out); and "Begin a task, but...
Grierson, Francis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...possessing also a mystic sense of impending great events; Parisian Portraits (1910); La Vie et les hommes (1911), aphorisms; The Humour of the Underman (1911) and Abraham Lincoln, The Practical Mystic (1918), both complementing his major book...
House of Night, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...of Night, The, poem by Freneau , published in 1779 and enlarged in his Poems (1786). It was suggested by the Scriptural aphorism, “the last enemy that shall be conquered is Death.” Death, in his solitary palace at midnight, is...
Ecclesiastes
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Ecclesiastes Old Testament book of aphorisms, compiled under the pseudonym ‘the Preacher, the son of David’. Evidence suggests that the book dates...

Dictionary entries related to "aphorism"

aphorism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable aphorism a concise statement of a scientific principle, typically by a classical...observation which contains a general truth. The word comes from the ‘Aphorisms of Hippocrates’, and was transferred to other sententious statements...
gnomic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x2C8;nōmik / • adj. expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms: that most gnomic form, the aphorism. ∎  enigmatic; ambiguous: I had to have the gnomic response interpreted for...
Fackel (Die-)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...publication was censored. A number of Kraus's articles and aphorisms have been collected in anthologies. Sigmund Freud, who was...Kraus then sharpened his barbs against psychoanalysis in aphorisms such as, "Psychoanalysis is a mental disease for which it...
Dharmasūtra
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...x2018;law’ + sūtra , ‘aphorism’). Any of a class of Sanskrit prose texts concerned...x101;stras, consisting of terse sūtras or aphorisms which are seldom arranged in any systematic fashion. Major...
Leoniceno, Nicolò
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of eleven Galenic treatises, beginning with the Ars medica (1508) and the Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates , together with the Aphorisms themselves (1509). He was very proud of these translations and in 1522 published a lengthy...
Ibn Al-Quff, Amīn Al-Dawlah Abū Al-Faraj Ibn Muwaffaq Al-Dīn Ya‘Qūb Ibn Isḥāq Al-Masīhī Al-Karakī
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...medicine) of Hunayn ibn Is ḥ ā q, and the Aphorisms and the Prognosis of the Hippocratic corpus in the Arabic...soon after gripped the Arab world. In his commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Ibn al-Quff included sayings and annotations...
Kāmasūtra
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...x101;masūtra (Skt., kāma ‘love’, + sūtra ‘aphorism’). A Sanskrit prose text concerning the art of love and sexual union. The Kāmasū...
Candrakírti
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...that a purely negative dialectic was inadequate. The contribution of Candrakīrti to an understanding of the terse aphorisms of Nāgārjuna, most notably through his ‘Clear Words’ ( Prasannapadā...
Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...society. Perhaps his clearest statement of his view of modernity can be found in Minima Moralia (1951), a collection of aphorisms, which state that the notion of totality was once part of a liberating philosophy, but over the last century has been absorbed...
class consciousness
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...between the apparent ineluctability of class and its problematic articulation are captured in E. P. Thompson's now famous aphorism that ‘if the experience appears as determined, class consciousness does not’. Most conceptions of proletarian...

Thesaurus entries related to "aphorism"

aphorism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus aphorism • noun  she was a fount of Orwellian aphorisms synonyms : saying, maxim, axiom, adage, epigram, dictum, gnome, proverb, saw, tag; rare apophthegm. See note at saying.
saying
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; saying, adage, aphorism, apothegm, epigram...to his new novel). An aphorism requires a little more...book of Mark Twain's aphorisms). An apothegm is a pointed and often startling aphorism, such as Samuel Johnson...
dictum
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...diktat.   2. the old dictum “might is right” synonyms : saying, maxim, axiom, proverb, adage, aphorism, saw, precept, epigram, motto, truism, commonplace, platitude; expression, phrase, tag.
expression
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 4. a timeworn expression synonyms : idiom, phrase, idiomatic expression; proverb, saying, adage, maxim, axiom, aphorism, saw, motto, platitude, cliché.   5. these pieces are very different in expression synonyms : emotion...
axiom
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus axiom • noun  he came to regret his belief in the axiom that there's no such thing as bad publicity synonyms : accepted truth, general truth, dictum, truism, principle; maxim, adage, aphorism; rare apophthegm, gnome.
epigram
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus epigram • noun  a collection of humorous epigrams from old gravestones synonyms : witticism, quip, jest, pun, bon mot; saying, maxim, adage, aphorism, apophthegm, epigraph; informal one-liner, wisecrack, (old) chestnut. See note at saying.
proverb
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus proverb • noun  Mama didn't just recite proverbs about decency and good sense, she lived by them synonyms : saying, adage, saw, maxim, axiom, motto, bon mot, aphorism, apophthegm, epigram, gnome, dictum, precept; words of wisdom. See note at saying.
saw
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...old rusty saw. See table.   2. the old saw about when the going gets tough synonyms : saying, maxim, proverb, aphorism, axiom, adage, epigram. Types of Saw backsaw bandsaw bench saw bow saw bucksaw buzz saw chainsaw circular saw compass saw...
motto
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English motto • noun   1. "waste not, want not" should be your motto synonyms : maxim, aphorism, adage, saying, saw, axiom, truism, precept, epigram, proverb, byword, gnome.   2. the club's motto synonyms : slogan, catchword, cry.
quip
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English quip • noun  make witty quips synonyms : witticism, wisecrack, joke, jest, bon mot, epigram, aphorism; inf. one-liner, crack.

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The aphorism.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; WHAT IS AN APHORISM? What makes it...phrasing. The best aphorisms, like the best...Sometimes, only the aphorisms of a deceased writer...rephrase a famous aphorism, can be called...most satisfying aphorisms are felt to have...readily admitted as an aphorism, though banal...
Reviews: The book of shadows: The last word on aphorisms
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/2/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...unsupported assertions. Aphorisms are arrogant, and...tells us that an aphorism is "a short pithy...possibility. An aphorism is the last word...the Afterword: aphorisms about aphorisms...when I read: "The aphorism will often contain...to read a book of aphorisms "diligently ...
Wit is the opiate of politics. (political aphorisms) (column)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 11/26/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...Bill for most solemn aphorism of the year, and the...the least forgettable aphorisms came from the two candidates...steady source of good aphorisms. "Conservatives are...smartly. This is no aphorism, merely the political wisecrack of the year. Aphorisms aren't easy. The...
The Case of the Seven Aphorisms
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/16/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...illuminates the First Aphorism of Religion Cases...celebrating the Seven Aphorisms upon which the group...denying the Seven Aphorisms. Summum lost in...me to the Second Aphorism of Religion Cases...the current Third Aphorism of Religion Cases...Of all the Summum aphorisms, my ...
Cookbooks and aphorisms. (recipes for life) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: Physical Therapy; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; Aphorisms, those pithy statements...love affair with the aphorism predates golden arches...share of dubious aphorisms, expressions that...will examine many aphorisms, but this month...have all heard the aphorism "Patients deserve...
"Pfeile mit Widerhaken": On the Aphorisms in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften and Wanderjahre
Magazine article from: Goethe Yearbook; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...crucial "ways "with the aphorisms that are included at the end...novel. Before approaching the aphorism collections in the Wanderjahre...Neumann has demonstrated, the aphorisms in Ottilie's "Tagebuch...I see this paradox of the aphorisms as at once a reflection of...
Summum may display aphorisms
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/21/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...GROVE -- A monument listing the Seven Aphorisms of the Summum faith could soon accompany...their monument and share their Seven Aphorisms with the world just like the Ten Commandments...are shared with the world." The Seven Aphorisms of the Summum faith -- which was founded...
Coleridge's Republicanism and the Aphorism in Aids to Reflection.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...genre. A collection of aphorisms, Aids was among the...Coleridge's use of the aphorism in Aids. This neglect...Along with maxims, aphorisms are assumed to be part...reasons for using the aphorism that have yet to be...fragments, the Victorians aphorisms--will be held to...
Tracking the aphorism drive.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 6/2/2009; 700+ words ; ...drive. Is it possible that we also have an aphorism drive? We do seem attracted to pat answers...effective; one must be quotable. In fact, aphorism is the oldest written art form, according to aphorism expert and author James Geary ("The World...
Character and aphorism, then and now.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...is cousin german to the aphorism. They share crispness...as there are benign aphorisms: but their makers are...ancient character and aphorism, "blessed are the peacemakers". At all events, aphorisms often look like telescoped...