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Meanings of epigrammatic in English

Terse and witty and like a maxim.

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Examples for "aphoristic"
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The Preludes are, in their aphoristic brevity, masterpieces of the first rank.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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And the reasons for holding an inquiry extend well beyond aphoristic Slavic wisdom.
Radio NZ
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Conversation recalling his behavior, appearance, aphoristic wit and Civil War experiences.
The new yorker
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Iago's moral creed may be summed up in two of his aphoristic sayings,-Virtue
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
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But she is working the aphoristic mode, Atwood is almost at the other extreme.
The new yorker
Usage of epigrammatic in English
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The President Montesquieu will not speak to you in the epigrammatic style.
Letters to His Son, 1750 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
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In these books he proved himself a master of terse, epigrammatic statement.
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
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His poems display a remarkable talent for the picturesque, forcible, and epigrammatic.
Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
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This epigrammatic speech of Mr. Disraeli brought Mr. Gladstone to his feet.
The Grand Old Man / Or, the Life and Public Services of the Righ...
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I was born epigrammatic, and my dying remark will be a paradox.
The Green Carnation
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She did not do it with intent to be smart, or epigrammatic.
The Other Girls
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For instance, one evening he said a charmingly epigrammatic thing in my presence.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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He was the author of several pleasing poems, of a somewhat epigrammatic character.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
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Taken all together they express in epigrammatic form every important doctrine of Blake's.
Mysticism in English Literature
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Seemingly his exuberance stimulated Forbes, himself a well-informed and epigrammatic talker.
Number Seventeen
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He measured its value by its piquancy, by its adaptability to epigrammatic rhymes.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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These cries could not be met by direct denial, by an epigrammatic retort.
Children of the Market Place
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Many show great shrewdness of observation, and have an epigrammatic wit.
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
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Above all, lyrical, didactic, and epigrammatic poetry found but feeble representation.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
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Come in, pessimist, and don't begin by being epigrammatic on the very doorstep.
The Moon out of Reach
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I did not remember that I had ever said anything half so epigrammatic!
Monsieur Maurice
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