Apostrophize

Word APOSTROPHIZE
Character 12
Hyphenation a pos tro phize
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Apostrophize"

What do we mean by apostrophize?

To address by or speak or write in apostrophe. transitive & intransitive verb

In grammar: To omit a letter or letters. To mark such omission with the sign (').

In rhetoric, to address by apostrophe.

To make an apostrophe or short digressive address in speaking; speak in the manner of an apostrophe.

Also spelled apostrophise.

To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe. intransitive verb

To address by apostrophe. transitive verb

To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes. transitive verb

To use the apostrophe figure of speech in writing or speech verb

To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters verb

Use an apostrophe verb

To address using the form of rhetoric called the apostrophe.

To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Apostrophize

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The word "apostrophize" in example sentences

He would have stopped all work to beg for extra pay at the merest suggestion of such a thing; but as it was he raised both fists and lapsed into his own tongue to apostrophize the ruffian who dared jostle King. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

She had, therefore, no sooner formed the hasty conclusion, that the individual in question belonged to this obnoxious class, than she resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent handmaidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first begins with a Prologue that introduces a mysterious robed and cowled astrologer in some ancient structure with a zodiac chart on the ground and no ceiling so he can apostrophize grandiloquently to the stars. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They say in his sadder vicissitudes he used sometimes to apostrophize fortune in the words of Aeschylus ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Women are always to seem to be this and that — yet virtue might apostrophize them, in the words of Hamlet — Seems! ❋ Unknown (2002)

Henceforth, when we are at our wit's end, we may apostrophize the difficulty, and exclaim, "O thou invisible spirit, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!" ❋ Timothy Harley (N/A)

I am aware my English version is tame and insipid, though, perhaps, not quite as much so as a translation I once met with of the sentence with which it was said Timoleon, Duc de Brissac, used to apostrophize himself before the looking-glass every morning. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)

Nor could we, with De Quincey, apostrophize to a certain other excitant, "O just, subtle, and mighty opium! thou boldest the keys of Paradise!" ❋ Various (N/A)

I had by 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. ❋ Various (N/A)

Truly we might apostrophize Freedom in the words of the Hebrew prophet: "Who is this that cometh with her garments dyed in blood?" ❋ Ellice Hopkins (N/A)

If he ever fell in love, we told one another, he would, without a doubt, sing serenades and apostrophize the moon. ❋ Temple Bailey (N/A)

Yet, on the other hand, I could readily believe that the mood and habit of mind out of which the hymn rose, that differs from Milton's and Thomson's and from the psalms, the source of all three, in the author's addressing himself to 'individual' objects actually present to his senses, while his great predecessors apostrophize 'classes' of things presented by the memory, and generalized by the understanding; ❋ James Gillman (N/A)

Frequently as I walked along did I apostrophize myself in terms of the highest approbation. ❋ James Morier (N/A)

He nearly caused Neal Farrar to burst a blood-vessel from the combined effects of struggling laughter and running, when he began to apostrophize the flying foe with grim humor, thus: -- ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

The fishermen's wives on the Scottish coast apostrophize the fish they sell, after their husbands 'perilous voyages, and sing, ❋ Various (N/A)

Fixing my eye steadily upon him, so he can understand that I am terribly in earnest, I shall proceed to apostrophize that genial victim as follows: ❋ Various (N/A)

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