2. Noun. Apes, taken collectively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apedom
1. the world of apes [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apedom
Literary usage of Apedom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"... when somewhere in the orient the ape-like ancestors of man passed the intangible
bound that separated apedom from incipient manhood, for in the older ..."
2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and suggested that the inhabitants of Gom Broon had tails, so that the brother
told him that his subjects had not emerged from apedom and he must invent ..."
3. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1876)
"The distance between the lower and higher apes is far greater than between the
latter and man ; and if the consanguinity of the entire apedom is decisive in ..."
4. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar), Oscar Schmidt (1875)
"The distance between the lower and higher apes is far greater than between the
latter and man ; and if the consanguinity of the entire apedom is decisive in ..."
5. Essays, English and American edited by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1920)
"... had not yet emerged from this early condition of apedom. They, it seems, were
still homines ..."
6. "Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas by Doran (John), Richard Henry Stoddard (1890)
"Eva Maria Garrick twice refused Lord Monboddo, who had written a book to show
that humanity was merely apedom without the tail. ..."
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