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Maxim   /mˈæksəm/   Listen
noun
Maxim  n.  
1.
An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism. "'T is their maxim, Love is love's reward."
2.
(Mus.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
Synonyms: Axiom; aphorism; apothegm; adage; proverb; saying. See Axiom.





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... finance is the peg on which nearly all our discussions are hung, and from which many of them arise. That is the historic origin of a great portion of the House of Commons procedure, and there is no more deeply rooted maxim than the maxim of "grievances before supply." Now, let me suppose a system of preference in operation. When the taxes came up to be voted each year, members would use those occasions for debating Colonial questions. I can imagine that they would say: We refuse ...
— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill
... reproved for his worldliness in amassing a large enough fortune to buy a good farm, answered his complaining congregation thus: "I have obtained the money to buy this farm by neglecting to follow the maxim to 'mind my own business.' My business was to study the word of God and attend to my parish duties and preach good sermons. All this I acknowledge I have not done, for I have been meddling with your business. That was to support me and my family; that you have not ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle
... by fire, to elude the maxim, "Ecclesia non novit sanguinem;" for burning a man, say they, does not shed his blood. Otho, the bishop at the Norman invasion, in the tapestry worked by Matilda the queen of William the Conqueror, ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... the word Theos, God, undoubtedly the Theuth of Egypt, from [Greek: theein], to run[466]. Innumerable derivations of this nature are to be found in Aristotle, Plato, [467]Heraclides Ponticus, and other Greek writers. There is a maxim laid down by the scholiast upon Dionysius; which I shall have occasion often to mention. [468][Greek: Ei barbaron to onoma, ou chre zetein Helleniken etumologian autou]. If the term be foreign, it is idle to have recourse to Greece ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... laws of England in abolishing the worship of the Church of England, and banishing its members for adhering to its worship. Their denials of it were an admission of the unlawfulness of such acts, as they were also dishonourable to themselves. Their maxim seems to have been, that the end sanctified the means—at least so far as the King was concerned; and that as they distrusted him, they were exempt from the obligations of loyalty and truth in their relations to him; that ...
— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson


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