Ăph'o-rĭst'ic or Ăph'o-rĭst'ic-al, a.

a. [Gr. ἀφοριστικός. See APHORISM.] In the form of an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style.

The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.