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apostrophic, a.|æpəʊˈstrɒfɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic, after Gr. στροϕικός.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or addicted to the use of rhetorical apostrophe.
1820Byron in Moore Life 448 Mrs. Hemans is..too stiltified and apostrophic. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. ii. 248 Passages of apostrophic grandeur.
2. Of or pertaining to the grammatical apostrophe.
1795L. Murray Gram. ii. iii. (R.) Sometimes when the singular terminates in ss the apostrophic s is not added. 1816Gilchrist Phil. Etym. 49 The genitive has the apostrophic'. |