apothegmatist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀποφθέγματος (apophthégmatos) (the genitive of ἀπόφθεγμα (apóphthegma, “a thing uttered; especially, a terse, pointed saying, an apothegm”)) + English -ist (suffix forming nouns denoting people who practise or study particular disciplines).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æpəʊˈθɛɡmətɪst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /æpoʊˈθɛɡmətɪst/
- Hyphenation: apo‧theg‧mat‧ist
Noun
[edit]apothegmatist (plural apothegmatists)
- A collector or maker of apothegms.
- 1727 (date written), Martinus Scriblerus [pseudonym; Alexander Pope], “ΠΕΡΙ ΒΑΘΟΥΣ [Peri Bathous]: Or, Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry. […]”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume VI, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], published 1751, →OCLC, chapter XIII (A Project for the Advancement of the Bathos), page 211:
- Novv each man applying his vvhole time and genius upon his particular Figure, vvould doubtleſs attain to perfection; and vvhen each became incorporated and ſvvorn into the Society (as hath been propoſed) a Poet or Orator vvould have no more to do but to ſend to the particular Traders in each Kind, to the Metaphoriſt for his Allegories, to the Simile-maker for his Compariſons, to the Ironiſt for his Sarcaſms, to the Apothegmatiſt for his Sentences, etc. […]
References
[edit]- ^ “apopthegmatist | apothegmatist, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2018.