Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
aphetical . - Produced by or resulting from aphesis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Of, relating to, or formed by
aphesis . - adjective astrology Of or relating to the
apheta ;life-giving .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective produced by aphesis
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Examples
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Sewer, an attendant at table, aphetic for Old Fr. asseour, a setter, is now a very rare name.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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The scarcity of Groser, grocer, is not surprising, for the word, aphetic for engrosser, originally meaning a wholesale dealer, one who sold en gros, is of comparatively late occurrence.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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We even find the names Saint, Martyr and Postill, the regular aphetic form of apostle (Chapter III), just as we find King and Pope.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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French aphetic forms, but the first two are also from Old French forms of Matthew, and Masson is sometimes an alternative form of Mason.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Faunt, aphetic for Anglo-Fr. enfaunt, is common in Mid.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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(apothecary), which had in early Scottish the aphetic forms Poticar, potigar --
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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1 He, making speedy way through spersed air, spersed > scattered (aphetic form of "dispersed") 2 And through the world of waters wide and deep,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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