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

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