English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Apostolate
(n.)
The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle;
apostleship.
Apostolic
(a.)
Alt. of Apostolical
Apostolic
(n.)
A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at
various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
Apostolical
(a.)
Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their
times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the
apostolic age.
Apostolical
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.
Apostolical
(a.)
According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered
or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.
Apostolically
(adv.)
In an apostolic manner.
Apostolicalness
(n.)
Apostolicity.
Apostolicism
(n.)
Alt. of Apostolicity
Apostolicity
(n.)
The state or quality of being apostolical.
Apostrophe
(n.)
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."
Apostrophe
(n.)
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.
Apostrophe
(n.)
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.
Apostrophic
(a.)
Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or
rhetorical.
Apostrophize
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
To address by apostrophe.
Apostrophize
(v. i.)
To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
Apostrophize
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
To contract by omitting a letter or
letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.
Apostume
(n.)
See Aposteme.
Apotactite
(n.)
One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed
imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
Apotelesm
(n.)
The result or issue.