apostrophize

Or that the prolix Gaev — a man as likely to apostrophize a piece of furniture as the stars above — keeps promising he’ll be quiet.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011

Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship.

From Time Magazine Archive

So did one medieval minstrel apostrophize his hero, suggesting that a good hunting dog might be a duke's best friend.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus did Adolf Hitler apostrophize his beloved season, spring.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Janet kept her ground, and continued to weep and wail and apostrophize the dead mother, or appeal to the orphan child.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Ali Tepelena, once apostrophized by Byron, was real; Albania certainly exists.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018

Sealing the message of political friendship was a video of the center’s namesake, apostrophized as “the greatest Irish American,” speaking during his visit to Ireland in 1963.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2016

Intriguingly, many of the cultural figures whom Harrison has apostrophized in her art are men—Amerigo Vespucci, Charles Darwin, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, as well as DiCaprio, Cheney, and, in his “Scarface” role, Al Pacino.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

When Prince von Starhemberg was able to speak at last he apostrophized the dead Chancellor with the intimate pronoun.

From Time Magazine Archive

They surrounded the mitrailleuses, apostrophized the sergeant in command of the gun, saying, "This is shameful; what are you doing there?"

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

Now, when she sat down to write in her notebook, she found herself apostrophizing anything that crossed her mind, addressing concepts and objects directly, trying to name their component parts.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 22, 2016

On Wednesday, Santa Barbara County district attorney Thomas Sneddon Jr. announced with unsuppressed glee that he had issued a warrant for Jackson's arrest, apostrophizing, "Get over here and get checked in."

From Time Magazine Archive

On glimpsing her, Poe might have written his poem "To Helen" apostrophizing the most beguiling beauty of the ancient world.

From Time Magazine Archive

She then retired to her own room, and spent half the night at least in weeping over the remembrance of Glenmurray, and in loudly apostrophizing his departed spirit.

From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Amelia Alderson Opie