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Adjective: apophthegmatic  ,a-pu,dheg'ma-tik
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: apothegmatic)
  1. Terse and witty and like a maxim
    "much given to apophthegmatic instruction";
    - aphoristic, apothegmatic [N. Amer], epigrammatic
     
  2. Given to or characterized by terse apothegms
    - apothegmatic [N. Amer], apothegmatical [N. Amer], apophthegmatical [Brit, Cdn]

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