a. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Having the form of an aphorism or aphorisms.
1794. Mathias, Pursuits Lit. (1798), 432. Said the Father of Physick in the depth of his aphorismick wisdom.
1833. Coleridge, Table T., 264. The style of Junius is a sort of metre, the law of which is a balance of thesis and antithesis. When he gets out of this aphorismic metre….
