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Definition of Apopemptic
1. Adjective. Addressed to one who is departing. "Apopemptic hymns"
Definition of Apopemptic
1. a. Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apopemptic songs or hymns.
Definition of Apopemptic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to departing; a farewell or valedictory. ¹
2. Noun. (Obsolete) A farewell or parting address. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apopemptic
Literary usage of Apopemptic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"There are, it seems, nine kinds of hymns—Cletic, apopemptic,1 physic, mythic,
genealogical, artificial, prayerful, deprecating, and mixed—the appearance of ..."
2. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"... a defence, speech in defence.] Apologetics, the scientific defence of
Christianity ; cf. i Pet. iii. 15. apopemptic poem. ..."
3. Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases by John Stowell Adams (1865)
"A farewell hymn, anciently- sung to n stranger about to return to his own country.
apopemptic Strains. Songs or hymns among the ancients addressed to the ..."
4. History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe: From the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"There are, it seems, nine kinds of hymns—Cletic, apopemptic,1 physic, mythic,
genealogical, artificial, prayerful, deprecating, and mixed—the appearance of ..."
5. The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheape Telegraphy and to Furnish a by James K. Selleck (1891)
"... argument in favor of Apologue It will be submitted to argument Apollyon An
exhaustive argument apopemptic It will not be submitted to argument Apophasis ..."
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