aphorist's Usage Examples:

His principal works are - Propaedeumata aphoristica (London, 1 55 8); Monas hieroglyphica (Antwerp, 1564); Epistola ad Fredericum Commandinum (Pesaro, 1570); Preface Mathematical to the English Euclid (1570); Divers Annotations and Inventions added after the tenth book of English Euclid (1570); Epistola praefixa Ephemeridibus Joannis Feldi, a.

It contains in an aphoristic form the main doctrines of the longer work.

aphoristic style which may not be to everyone's taste.

Some of the material may have existed in aphoristic form before, but the composition of the present book may be put approximately in the century 300-200 B.

Another Adiaphorist controversy between Pietists and their opponents, respecting the lawfulness of amusements, arose in 1681, when Anton Reiser (1628-1686) denounced the opera as antichristian.

Hence arose that "adiaphoristic" controversy in connexion with which he has been misrepresented as holding among matters of indifference such cardinal doctrines as justification by faith, the number of the sacraments, as well as the dominion of the pope, feast-days, and so on.

In the aphoristic sections also there is variety; there are couplets (x.

His works are very clear in style, though aphoristic rather than systematic in the treatment of subjects.

This modification was known as the Leipzig Interim; its advocates were stigmatized as Adiaphorists.

Synonyms:

intellect, intellectual,

Antonyms:

unscholarly, nonintellectual, physical,