a. [irreg. f. Gr. ἀφόρισμα, which was not used in the sense of its cognate ἀφορισμός.] = APHORISMIC or APHORISTIC.
1822. Edin. Rev., XXXVII. 136. Paley is rather dry and aphorismatic.
1846. O. Gregory, Robt. Hall, I. 85. Opinions … clothed in an aphorismatic terseness of language.
