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Apostrophize   Listen
verb
Apostrophize  v. t.  
1.
To address by apostrophe.
2.
To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.






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"Apostrophize" Quotes from Famous Books



... this time returned to the fireplace, and, reseating myself, began to apostrophize my magnificent black Newfoundland, who, having partaken of my dinner, was following the advice and example of Abernethy, and sleeping on the rug, as it digested.—"And you, too, my old Neptune, aren't you the best and handsomest ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 10, No. 270, Saturday, August 25, 1827. • Various

... of tool in their hands. And consequently the surface of the hill began to disappear, and there were chasms in the orad, which caused those who travelled on wheels to sit still, staring across with angry eyes, and sometimes to apostrophize the doer of these deeds with very naughty words. The doer was the Board of Works, or the "Board" as it was familiarly termed; and were it not that those ill words must have returned to the bosoms which vented them, and have flown no further, no Board could ever have been so terribly curse-laden. ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Apostrophize" :   apostrophe, write



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