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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affecting the use of aphorisms in speaking and writing.

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  • It is that corruption, introduced by certain immethodical aphorisming eclectics, who, dismissing not only all system, but all logical connection, pick and choose whatever is most plausible and showy; who select, whatever words can have some semblance of sense attached to them without the least expenditure of thought; in short whatever may enable men to talk of what they do not understand, with a careful avoidance of every thing that might awaken them to a moment's suspicion of their ignorance.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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