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English
Etymology
From apostrophe + -ise.
Verb
apostrophise (third-person singular simple present apostrophises, present participle apostrophising, simple past and past participle apostrophised)
- Alternative spelling of apostrophize
1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):Will Royalty fly off towards Austria; like a lit rocket, towards endless Conflagration of Civil War? Stop it, ye Patriots, in the name of Heaven! Rude voices passionately apostrophise Royalty itself.
1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 2, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
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