Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphetised
Literary usage of Aphetised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters on English Printing, Prosody, and Pronunciation (1550-1700) by Bastiaan Adriaan Pieter van Dam, Cornelis Stoffel (1902)
"... can hardly be anything else than the aphetised form of ... which aphetised
form printers (or writers) probably failed to identify. ..."
2. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen by L. Herrig (1902)
"... but in lots of cases the printers have • printed the full form though the
metre clearly shows that Sh. must have intended the aphetised one. III. ..."
3. Nordisk tidsskrift for filologi by K. J. Lyngby (1902)
"dialect, among aphetised forms, without making the slightest reference to the
... These examples, which might easily be multiplied, (among the aphetised ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1890)
"Occasionally it casts a syllable. A curious instance of this is the word “peach.”
This is an aphetised form of the verb ..."
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