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

No bright and overwhelming genius appeared in 1947 to light the way and apostrophize the age.

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

They say in his sadder vicissitudes he used sometimes to apostrophize fortune in the words of Aeschylus — Thou liftest up, to cast us down again.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh