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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

Encyclopedia entries related to "aphorism"

aphorism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition aphorism , short, pithy statement of an evident truth concerned with life or nature; distinguished from the axiom because its truth is...
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...
gall bladder
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...all races and at all ages (even in the teens). Although their prevalence varies, there is some truth in the well-known aphorism that the typical patient with gallstones is a fat, fair, fertile woman in her forties. Bernard Naunyn's classic monograph...
Navy Combat Branches
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...to advancement remained duty aboard large surface warships. Top midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy took seriously the aphorism, “Get behind the big guns and stay there.” World War II overturned this long‐standing system...
Panini
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...authored treatise on Sanskrit. Each of its 3,995 rules governing roots and suffixes is introduced in a sutra, a concise aphorism. The Ashtādhyāyī also contains historical, social, and geographical information. It is still...
Merton, Robert K.
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Sir Isaac Newton, but what Merton showed with dazzling erudition and more than a few entertaining digressions was that the aphorism originated with Bernard of Chartres in the twelfth century. This corrected not only those who cited merely Newton but those...
-ISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...plagiarism , prescriptivism , racism , sexism , symbolism . (2) Forming linguistic and stylistic terms: anachronism , aphorism , archaism , barbarism , classicism , colloquialism , dysphemism , euphemism initialism , malapropism , neologism , regionalism...
steam propulsion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea steam propulsion. The aphorism ‘steam gives way to sail’ came out of the marine steam revolution of the 19th century, for steam-powered...

Dictionary entries related to "aphorism"

aphorism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology aphorism XVI. — F. aphorisme , or late L. aphorismus — Gr. aphorismós , f. aphorízein define, f. APO- + horizein (see HORIZON ).
Astrology: China
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...hermetic nature of the practice, evidence suggests the influence of astrological considerations was pervasive. As a common aphorism put it not long after the founding of the empire, "astute though the Son of Heaven may be, one must still see where Mars...
art
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...long to learn’). The idea however goes back to the Greek physician Hippocrates, of the 5th century bc , whose aphorism ‘life is short, but art is long’ compared the difficulties encountered in learning the art of medicine...
apopthegm
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable apopthegm a concise saying or maxim; an aphorism. The word is recorded from the mid 16th century, and comes ultimately (via French or modern Latin) from Greek apophthengesthai ‘speak out’.
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...
Breuer, Josef (1842-1925)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...and enlightened Jew, he adopted a kind of pantheism that he derived from Goethe and Gustav Theodor Fechner. His favorite aphorism was Spinoza's suum esse conservare (preserve one's being). He was gripped by a form of skepticism and spoke, following...
Ego (Ego Psychology)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...analytic patients. Such disturbances were seen as the cause of perversions and other human behavioral problems. Certainly, the aphorism " Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust " ("Two souls reside, alas, in my breast") had long been familiar, but...
Psychic Reality
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...first type relates psychical reality to the impact of external reality, summarized at a preliminary level by the Freudian aphorism, "Nothing in thought that was not first in the senses." Psychical reality in this sense would indicate a previous encounter...
Psychosexual Development
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Similarly, what persists in a prevalent and manifest manner in the perversions is repressed in neurosis. Hence Freud's famous aphorism: "Neurosis is the negative of perversion." The phases Freud described between 1905 and 1923 correspond to successive organizations...
Connacht
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...in the aftermath of the rebellion of 1641 surviving catholic landholders were transported there, a process summed up in the aphorism ascribed to Cromwell ‘To hell or Connacht!’ It played a significant part in the 1798 rebellion, witnessing...

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 Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...weather synonyms : proverb, maxim, aphorism, axiom, adage, saw, epigram, dictum...xA0; USAGE NOTES   adage, aphorism, apothegm, epigram, epigraph, maxim...the epigraph to his new novel). An aphorism requires a little more thought than an...
rule
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...it is a good rule to wait for others to speak synonyms : principle, precept, standard, axiom, truth, truism, maxim, aphorism, motto.   3. as a general rule, children are not allowed synonyms : practice, procedure, routine, custom, habit...
saw
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English saw • noun  a book of old saws synonyms : saying, proverb, maxim, aphorism, axiom, adage, epigram, dictum, gnome, apothegm, platitude, cliché.
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.
motto
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus motto • noun  the town's motto is "Tolerance and Prosperity" synonyms : maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, apophthegm, formula, expression, phrase, dictum, precept; slogan, catchphrase, mantra; truism...
adage
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus adage • noun  I should have remembered the old adage 'look before you leap' synonyms : saying, maxim, axiom, proverb, aphorism, saw, dictum, byword, precept, motto, truism, platitude, cliché, apophthegm, commonplace.
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.
mot
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English mot • noun   synonyms : bon mot, witticism, quip, pun, epigram, aphorism, maxim, saw, saying, proverb, adage, axiom.
maxim
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English maxim • noun   synonyms : aphorism, proverb, adage, saw, saying, axiom, precept, epigram, gnome.

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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 quotable and memorable...quotation, which, to rephrase a famous aphorism, can be called the sincerest form of...often quoted expressions, go beyond the aphorism, of course. They are indeed moving...
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...
Kathleen Parker: The aphorism drive
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 5/28/2009; ; 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...
Aphorism set to leave the dervish in a whirl; PRICEWISE.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 6/22/2008; 700+ words ; ...bet Kaateb 3.10 Pontefract 1pt win Aphorism 4.10 Pontefract 1pt win THREE-TIME...going to have his work cut out to beat Aphorism, who has her quirks but possesses plenty...horse other than Spencer, and while Aphorism is tricky, this race is hers to lose...
The Aphorism Master
Newspaper article from: Forward; 5/20/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...of literature's shortest form, the aphorism, extends from the mythical Hippocrates...time of reduction and minimization, the aphorism has rightly returned. Its master is...odds with their length. "I like the aphorism," Gal said at a recent interview in...
Horse Racing: Aphorism win leaves Spencer one behind; WARWICK.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 10/3/2007; 700+ words ; ...battle with Seb Sanders after steering Aphorism to victory in the 2m handicap. Spencer...off his last mount of the afternoon. Aphorism was given a typically confident ride...Love at Sedgefield. Star performance Aphorism won nicely enough and looks the type...
Horse Racing: Buick's talent can shine on Aphorism; RACING POST RATINGS.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 9/1/2007; 700+ words ; ...James Fanshawe as he takes the ride on Aphorism for the first time in the William T Corbett...just over a fortnight ago. That was Aphorism's first run since December and also...exposed field, it will be disappointing if Aphorism can't provide him with another good...
Character and aphorism, then and now.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...the character is cousin german to the aphorism. They share crispness, intensity of...very long that ancient character and aphorism, "blessed are the peacemakers". At...sample of modern poetry's displaying aphorism engaged with character is this passage...
The art of the aphorism
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 3/17/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...saying and the profound maxim. The word aphorism comes from the Greek ap-horeizen...boundary or define a horizon. A good aphorism, then, is one that casts life in a...thinkers. This explains why writing a good aphorism, like constructing a good soundbite...
An aphorism a day.... (memorable quotations from 1994) (On Society) (Column)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 1/9/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Slims cigarettes sounded like an argument with Clinton's aphorism about acting like yourself: "There is no alternative to being...Prudence about vice is no vice itself." The A is A type of aphorism (sample: "When you're hot you're hot") wasn't much...