Apothegm vs Apocrypha - What's the difference?
apothegm | apocrypha |
A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
* 1665 , , The English Rogue: De?cribed, in the Life of Merington Latroon, A Witty Extravagant, Being a Compleat Hi?tory of the Mo?t Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes , Henry Marsh,
* 1920 ,
* 2008 , , ISBN 978-0-441-01575-7, page 114,
(obsolete) Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority (formerly also used attributively).
As a noun apothegm
is a short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.As a proper noun apocrypha is
(plurale tantum) that group of works which formed part of the septuagint, but not of the hebrew canon recognized by the jews, and which is considered by some christians to form an authentic part of scripture, but which is rejected by other (namely by protestants).apothegm
English
Alternative forms
* apophthegmNoun
(en noun)page 355,
- Every gla?s of wine, or bit almo?t, that I committed to my mouth, ?he u?hered thither with ?ome Apothegm or other: the whole ?eries, indeed, of her di?cour?e, was compo?ed of nothing but rea?on or wit, which made me admire her; which ?he ea?ily under?tood, I perceived by her ?miles, when ?he ob?erved me gaping, as it were, when ?he ?poke, as if I would have eaten up her Words.
- "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"
- She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.
- "My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
- Which means roughly that business keeps one safe from love—ominous talk when one’s lover is a courtesan. I hoped that it was just another literary conceit I ought to know. (It is, I later learned, an apothegm by .)
Synonyms
* See .apocrypha
English
(wikipedia apocrypha)Noun
(head)- (John Locke)