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Apostle
n.
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Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.
Apostle
n.
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The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.
Apostle
n.
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A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.
Apostleship
n.
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The office or dignity of an apostle.
Apostolate
n.
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The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship.
Apostolate
n.
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The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.
Apostolic
a.
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Alt. of Apostolical
Apostolical
a.
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Pertaining to an apostle, or to the apostles, their times, or their peculiar spirit; as, an apostolical mission; the apostolic age.
Apostolical
a.
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According to the doctrines of the apostles; delivered or taught by the apostles; as, apostolic faith or practice.
Apostolical
a.
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Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.
Apostolic
n.
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A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.
Apostolically
adv.
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In an apostolic manner.
Apostolicalness
n.
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Apostolicity.
Apostolicism
n.
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Alt. of Apostolicity
Apostolicity
n.
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The state or quality of being apostolical.
Apostrophe
n.
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A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."
Apostrophe
n.
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The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.
Apostrophe
n.
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The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.
Apostrophic
a.
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Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.
Apostrophize
p. pr. & vb. n.
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To address by apostrophe.
Apostrophize
p. pr. & vb. n.
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To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.
Apostrophize
v. i.
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To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
Apostume
n.
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See Aposteme.
Apotactite
n.
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One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
Apotelesm
n.
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The result or issue.
Apotelesm
n.
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The calculation and explanation of a nativity.
Apotelesmatic
a.
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Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
Apotelesmatic
a.
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Relating to an issue of fulfillment.
Apothecaries
pl.
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of Apothecary
Apothecary
n.
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One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.