What is "apostrophise"

Usage examples of "apostrophise".

When I stalked out like that from the library in fine mood to moralise and apostrophise heaven in a way that would no doubt have looked fine upon these pages, one sprightly damsel, just as the gloomy rhetoric was bursting from my lips, thrust a flower under my nose whose scent brought on a violent attack of sneezing, her companions joining hands and dancing round me while they imitated my agony.

When words fail me to speak of the gift, can you wonder if I apostrophise the Giver?

I thought for a moment that he was going to apostrophise it, to declare aloud his determination never to rest till he had discovered the murderer.

Never mind what he heard, I stopped apostrophising and convinced him that I was not a man to allow contempt of Court on the part of a horse.

All the while he talked loudly and with much gesticulation, apostrophising himself, scolding himself, uttering little cries of triumph or selfencouragement.

He stood at the other side of the forecastle, while his master apostrophised him, looking him in the face.

He even visited the schoolroom to ascertain what the relationships were there—that was when he apostrophised himself a fool!

Gillenormand folded his arms, a posture which with him was particularly imperious, and apostrophised Marius bitterly.

In "Childhood" Tolstoy apostrophises with feeling one of those "innocents," a man named Grisha, "whose faith was so strong that you felt the nearness of God, your love so ardent that the words flowed from your lips uncontrolled by your reason.

Tolstoy apostrophises with feeling one of those "innocents," a man named Grisha, "whose faith was so strong that you felt the nearness of God, your love so ardent that the words flowed from your lips uncontrolled by your reason.

Cruncher, apostrophising himself in his usual way, "you see that there Cly that day, and you see with your own eyes that he was a young 'un and a straight made 'un.