Apostolically: Definition and part of speech

Apostolically

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. The mark [‘] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne’er for never, can’t for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy’s hat, boys’ hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.
n. A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton’s apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of “Paradise Lost.”
n. The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character [‘] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call’d for called.

v. i. To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
p. pr. & vb. n. To address by apostrophe.
p. pr. & vb. n. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (‘) or apostrophes.