aphorist
noun1
A person who creates or recites aphorisms.
- Leaving the reader to study the details of the discussion in Dr. Ballantyne's aphorisms of the Nyāya (Part Second, pp. 77 ff.), I will pass over most of the Sūtras, and merely quote the principal conclusions of the Nyāya aphorist.1873, J. Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, 2nd edition, volume 3, page 110:
- In the examination of the revisions which these texts underwent, we have stolen a rare glance into the interior of the workshop of the aphorist.1987, Richard T. Gray, Constructive Destruction: Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation:
1 more example
- [Juhani Siljo]'s natural form of expression was the aphorism; he is one of the best aphorists of his time and in Finnish literature.1998, George C. Schoolfield, A History of Finland's Literature, page 142:
- Derived terms
- aphoristic