adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an aphoristic manner; by way of aphorisms; pithily.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 386. His own Words; which I have aphoristically set down in these Sentences following.
1773. Johnson, in Boswell (1831), II. 274. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
1873. Brit. Q Rev., LVII. 178. As St. Augustine said of one of these, ‘If not asked, I know; if you ask me, I know not’—expressing aphoristically the truth that all our knowledge recedes into mystery, and arises out of the inexplicable.
