Helen Fenton

Aphemia: Definition and part of speech

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Aphemia

  1. n. Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; — a disorder of cerebral origin.

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.

Apheresis: Definition and part of speech

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Apheresis

  1. n. An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
  2. n. The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

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.

Aphesis: Definition and part of speech

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Aphesis

  1. n. The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; — the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.

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.

Aphetic: Definition and part of speech

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Aphetic

  1. a. Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

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.