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Apostrophic — Ap os*troph ic, a. Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
apostrophic — adjective a) Pertaining to the rhetoric use of apostrophe Mrs. Hemans is too stiltified and apostrophic Byron, Moore Life b) Pertaining to the grammatical use of the apostrophe … Wiktionary
apostrophic — adjective of or characteristic of apostrophe a passage of apostrophic grandeur • Pertains to noun: ↑apostrophe … Useful english dictionary
apostrophic — I. adjective see apostrophe I II. adjective see apostrophe II … New Collegiate Dictionary
apostrophic — adj. of addressing of person not present or deceased … English contemporary dictionary
apostrophic — ap·os·troph·ic … English syllables
Multiple master fonts — (or MM fonts) are an extension to Adobe Systems Type 1 PostScript fonts, now mostly superseded by the advent of OpenType. Multiple master fonts contain two or more masters that is, original font styles and enable a user to interpolate between… … Wikipedia
apostrophe — I. noun Etymology: Latin, from Greek apostrophē, literally, act of turning away, from apostrephein to turn away, from apo + strephein to turn Date: 1533 the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically … New Collegiate Dictionary
apostrophe — apostrophe1 apostrophic /ap euh strof ik, stroh fik/, adj. /euh pos treuh fee/, n. the sign ( ), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o er for over, or pronounced, as in gov t for… … Universalium
apostrophe — I. /əˈpɒstrəfi / (say uh postruhfee) noun the sign ( ) used to indicate: 1. the omission of one or more letters in a word, as in o er for over, halo d for haloed. 2. the possessive case, as in lion s, lions . 3. certain plurals, as in several MD… …
