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Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.

A dealer in aphorisms. [Used in derogation or contempt.] Milton.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.

Exciting venereal desire; provocative to venery.

Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus. "Aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans]. C. Reade.

One who keeps an apiary.

A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.

A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.

Freedom from spherical aberration.

The writer of the Apocalypse.

A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople.

One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [R.]

Full demonstration.

nsequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.