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Aphetic

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aph·e·sis  (f-ss)
n. pl. aph·e·ses (-sz)
The loss of an initial, usually unstressed vowel, as in cute from acute.
[Greek, a release, from aphenai, aphe-, to let go : apo-, apo- + henai, to send; see diesis.]
a·phetic (-ftk) adj.
a·pheti·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.aphetic - produced by aphesis
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offers no obviously correct explanation under "size" but notes that in early use this could be an aphetic form of "assize," which affords the gloss "assessed," used here, however, in an unrecorded figurative sense.
"A Funeral Elegy": obstacles to belief by Wells, Stanley / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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