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▪ I. aˈphetic, a.1 and n. Astrol.
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to the apheta; life-giving; also n.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 141 Now they have inspected..and found..all the apheticks safe and sound. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 7 According to Ptolemy, the Aphetic Places are five.
▪ II. aphetic, a.2|əˈfɛtɪk|
[f. Gr. ἄϕετ-ος (cf. σύνετος) vbl. adj. f. ἀϕιέναι (see aphesis) + -ic.]
Pertaining to, or resulting from, aphesis.
1880[see aphesis]. 1884New Eng. Dict. s.v. A-, Many words with a- in one or other of the preceding senses have aphetic forms with the a- lost, as adown down, amid mid. 1905Eng. Dial. Dict., Tankerous, an aphetic form of ‘cantankerous’. 1959N. & Q. CCIV. 434/2 Serued..may be merely an aphetic form of OF. deservir. |