v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] To write or speak in apophthegms. Hence apophthegmatizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

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1785.  Paley, Mor. Philos., I. Pref. (1787), xvi. (R.). This sententious, apothegmatizing style.

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1818.  Todd, Apothegmatise.

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