[f. Gr. ἀποφθεγματ- (ἀπόφθεγμα) APOPHTHEGM + -IST.] A professed maker of apophthegms.
1727. Pope, Art Sinking, 115. A poet or orator would have no more to do but to send … to the ironist for his sarcasms, to the apothegmatist for his sentences.
