The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apostrophize \A*pos"tro*phize\, v. t., [imp. & p. p. Apostrophized; p. pr. & vb. n. Apostrophizing.]
To address by apostrophe.
To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.
Apostrophize \A*pos"tro*phize\, v. i. To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to use the apostrophe figure of speech in writing or speech 2 to add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters
WordNet
v. use an apostrophe [syn: apostrophise]
Usage examples of "apostrophize".
No Licinius Crassus had ever been apostrophized as a demagogue or any other sort of political radical, so what was Catulus prating about?
He worshiped what he called thoughts, would rave about a thought in the abstract, apostrophize an uncaught idea.
The ladies beholding it exclaimed against Clara, even apostrophized her, so dark are trivial errors when circumstances frown.
He reminded everyone that Paullus was in Macedonia, and apostrophized the whole business as a tissue of lies.
People they so freely apostrophized, would be one of the great issues of the Revolution.
They were certainly much closer to the People so freely apostrophized by the Third Estate than the lawyers, functionaries and professional men who made up that body.
It is there that the People, endlessly apostrophized by the politicians, make their appearance as audience, pupils and ideal citizens: patriotic in their muscularity but never threatening in their unruliness.
Robespierre, who so freely apostrophized them from the parlor of the Duplays.
And most important of all, it delivered the initiative for further political action into the hands of a younger, more radical group who had no qualms at all about apostrophizing the People.
For indeed there was no love lost between the men Scaurus would have apostrophized as demagogues and the men Scaurus commended for never losing sight of the fact that they were senators before they were tribunes of the plebs.
The time which elapses in the drama between Elizabeth's departure from the scene and her return as a corpse is just as long as the song which Wolfram sings in which he apostrophizes her as his "holder Abendstern"--just as long and not a moment longer.
This common soldier, who cannot help breaking out in poetry when he thinks of Smith, is made to say that Smith was his captain "in the fierce wars of Transylvania," and he apostrophizes him: "Thou that to passe the worlds foure parts dost deeme No more, than ewere to goe to bed or drinke, And all thou yet hast done thou dost esteeme As nothing.
Ethelmer, downstairs, alone, at the Clavier, hair loos'd, apostrophizes a Thermometer, throughout which the Listener may imagine a series of idiotic still-life Views, first of the Thermometer, registering some low temperature, then of Ethelmer, singing to it, then back to the Thermometer again, and so forth.
This common soldier, who cannot help breaking out in poetry when he thinks of Smith, is made to say that Smith was his captain "in the fierce wars of Transylvania," and he apostrophizes him: Thou that to passe the worlds foure parts dost deeme No more, than ewere to goe to bed or drinke, And all thou yet hast done thou dost esteeme As nothing.
She had flirted audaciously during the day with some young Englishmen and Canadians of her acquaintance, and after passing the La Chine Rapids she had taken the hearts of all the men by springing suddenly to her feet, apostrophizing the tumult with a charming attitude, and warbling a delicious bit of song.