Definition for APH'O-RISM

APH'O-RISM, n. [Gr. αφορισμος, determination, distinction; from αφοριζω, to separate.]

A maxim; a precept, or principle expressed in a few words; a detached sentence containing some important truth; as, the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or of the civil law. – Encyc.

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