apothegmatize

present singular third person apothegmatizes · participle present apothegmatizing · participle past apothegmatized · past apothegmatized

1. intransitiveTo utter apothegms (short witty sayings).

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   This occurs with the stylization of the impasse of reflexive consciousness, of the movement of the mind that we can call A therefore not-A and that Beckett apothegmatizes in the phrase "imagination dead imagine" and elsewhere explicates as "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."

   1992, J. M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews