apostrophize
apostrophise BrE

He left off biting his lower lip to apostrophize me.

Here it is clear that you are apostrophizing the cause of your disaster, the chicken.

Women are always to seem to be this and that- yet virtue might apostrophize them, in the words of Hamlet- Seems!

Nor will anyone apostrophize you as my partisan.

He spoke as if apostrophizing the sky: "How oddly the winds rustle the leaves!

"So there you have them," she apostrophizes.

The gall of Lepidus, to apostrophize her as "ghastly"!

I fear that that brilliant circle would sooner roast a waterfowl than apostrophize it.

Radu sat there apostrophizing the death machine, from which he had pulled back the oilskin cover.

While my good friend Hastings was apostrophizing the night, I took the opportunity of pouring it, not down my throat, but into a little bottle.

Ghuddup was chuckling and apostrophizing the 'Paisley patterns' of the abyss.

"Little fool," she would apostrophize herself, "don't snivel.

And Clare never presumes to apostrophize nature, as Shelley does: "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!

Burgess and Pratt attribute this development, like that of the growth in full-time as opposed to part-time students, to what they apostrophize as 'academic drift'.

Even as she spoke, Yambu was wishing that she had gone off by herself to so apostrophize Wayfinder.

The Romans loathed Sardinians, apostrophizing them as inveterate thieves, rogues, and oafs.

They began to apostrophize the "happy poverty" of the peasant in his hovel, and quaintness came into its own as a halfway station between life and art.

Magico-medical spells and inscriptions, as on amulets, frequently personify and apostrophize the ailment (here, "Fever").

Movement 1 apostrophizes Music: 'Lovely Enchantress, Cupid's daughter, sweet Mistress of our pastimes, what can your aid not accomplish?'

You little thought," said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you.

You were a gentlemanly Cove, though" (Mr. Wemmick was again apostrophizing), "and you said you could write Greek.

But Patton always behaves as a general should. . . .He writes bloodcurdling poetry apostrophizing the God of Battles.

- ' continued Walter, apostrophizing an old gentleman with a powdered head (inaudibly to him of course), who was staring at a ship's telescope with all his might and main.

One of the spectres (who afterwards mourned Christminster as "the home of lost causes," though Jude did not remember this) was now apostrophizing her thus: "Beautiful city!

He didn't apostrophise it, for he was no great scholar.

But it's not worth your while to apostrophise me, or the air, about it; what you want to do, you do.

'Hi,' said Lydia, suppressing an urge to apostrophise him by his calling.

But, what is this rubbing against me, as I apostrophise Madame Doche?

Rude voices passionately apostrophise Royalty itself.

May I take a moment to apostrophise the apostrophe, which finds itself suddenly de trop in a "digital world of URLs and email addresses".

--Sure, Miss Nugent, you, that are so quick, can't but know I would apostrophise Miss Broadhurst that is, but that won't be long so, I hope.

And the Convention-doors are obstructed by roaring multitudes: find-spoken hommes d'etat are hustled, maltreated, as they pass; Marat will apostrophise you, in such death-peril, and say, Thou too art of them.