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- English Word Apostolical Definition According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.
- English Word Apostolical Definition Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.
- English Word Apostolically Definition In an apostolic manner.
- English Word Apostolicalness Definition Apostolicity.
- English Word Apostolicism Definition Alt. of Apostolicity
- English Word Apostolicity Definition The state or quality of being apostolical.
- English Word Apostrophe Definition A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."
- English Word Apostrophe Definition The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.
- English Word Apostrophe Definition The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.
- English Word Apostrophic Definition Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.
- English Word Apostrophize Definition To address by apostrophe.
- English Word Apostrophize Definition To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.
- English Word Apostrophize Definition To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
- English Word Apostume Definition See Aposteme.
- English Word Apotactite Definition One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
- English Word Apotelesm Definition The result or issue.
- English Word Apotelesm Definition The calculation and explanation of a nativity.
- English Word Apotelesmatic Definition Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
- English Word Apotelesmatic Definition Relating to an issue of fulfillment.
- English Word Apothecaries Definition of Apothecary
- English Word Apothecary Definition One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
- English Word Apothecia Definition of Apothecium
- English Word Apothecium Definition The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.
- English Word Apothegm Definition Alt. of Apophthegm
- English Word Apothegmatic Definition Alt. of Apothegmatical
- English Word Apothegmatical Definition Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
- English Word Apothegmatist Definition A collector or maker of apothegms.
- English Word Apothegmatize Definition To utter apothegms, or short and sententious sayings.
- English Word Apothem Definition The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.
- English Word Apothem Definition A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.