apostrophize
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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
He hired four obscure artists to paint the illustrations exactly as he wanted them, and then got some second-rate poets to apostrophize the plants in sticky verse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poets are wont to apostrophize the leafy month of June, and there is no denying that if Spring is "some," June is Summer.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward
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
Books have been written about her, poems have apostrophized her and artists from Andy Warhol to Claes Oldenburg have portrayed her in painting and sculpture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus stood we as the sun arose,—that "Sun of Austerlitz!" so often appealed to and apostrophized by Napoleon as gilding the greatest of his glories.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
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 glimpsing her, Poe might have written his poem "To Helen" apostrophizing the most beguiling beauty of the ancient world.
From Time Magazine Archive
By way of apostrophizing his movement, Smith, 68, has just erected a $250,000 snow-white statue of Jesus Christ atop 1,500-ft.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor ignorant beast of the field!" he had said, apostrophizing the unconscious Brisket, "how little knowest thou how ill those flowers become thee, or for what purpose thou art thus caressed!
From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope
