aˈpostrophized,ppl.a. [f.prec. + -ed.] a. Addressed in an apostrophe. b. Contracted by apostrophe. 1818tr.Matthiæ's Grk. Gram. (1829) I. 49 The apostrophized word is often contracted into one with the following word [e.g.] διὸ..more correctly written δι' ὅ.