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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apostrophize.

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Examples

  • Lost, Milton "apostrophizes the devil as the true principium individuationis, a concept which has been anticipated by the alchemists for some time before."

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • At the opening of the sestet, the poet stops referring to the priests as "they" and, instead, apostrophizes them as "ye."

    An excursion into Victorian Protestant poetry: "Heart of Oak" 2009

  • At the opening of the sestet, the poet stops referring to the priests as "they" and, instead, apostrophizes them as "ye."

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • Simply, no other work of a bloody century so successfully .. that is, to a lesser degree of failure .. apostrophizes the character of total war.

    June 2006 2006

  • The standard interpretation, however, rightly recognizes that the speaker is not Archytas but a shipwrecked sailor who apostrophizes Archytas (Nisbet and Hubbard 1970, 317ff.).

    Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

  • 'Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts', she apostrophizes, 'unsex me here/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/Of direst cruelty!'

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • 'This shows you are above,/You justicers', Albany trimphantly apostrophizes the gods, 'that these our nether crimes/So speedily can venge!'

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • In this article he first takes the part of the moderns as against the ancients, though he by no means deprecates the genius of the latter, and then eloquently apostrophizes the object of his youthful hero-worship, the immortal Canning, whose death he compares to that of the lamented Pitt.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • This was delivered at Ephesus, in an assembly of bishops, during the council; for he apostrophizes that city, and St. John the Evangelist, its protector.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • We shall meet this Medium again, but for the present we will leave him, after pausing for a minute over his business card, which, after stating his terms in prosaic dollars and cents, thus apostrophizes his clientele:

    Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission

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