Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See arrhaphostic.

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Examples

  • a seventy-eight, and warranted water-proof without pitch, because of the density of their pores -- do you think, because you are as impervious as an araphorostic shoe, that I, John Russelton, am equally impenetrable, and that you are to let easterly winds play about my room like children, begetting rheums and asthmas and all manner of catarrhs?

    Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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  • JM suspects that it all seems araphorostic.

    January 18, 2011