Definition of "aphetic" []

• Of, relating to, or formed by aphesis. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the apheta; life-giving. (adjective)

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• "Sewer, an attendant at table, aphetic for Old Fr. asseour, a setter, is now a very rare name."
• "The scarcity of Groser, grocer, is not surprising, for the word, aphetic for engrosser, originally meaning a wholesale dealer, one who sold en gros, is of comparatively late occurrence."
• "We even find the names Saint, Martyr and Postill, the regular aphetic form of apostle (Chapter III), just as we find King and Pope."