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aphetic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective aphetic has 1 sense
- aphetic(a = adj.pert) Array - produced by aphesis; Array Derived form noun aphesis1
CIDE DICTIONARY
aphetic, a. [Gr. letting go, fr. to let go.].
Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. New Eng. Dict. [1913 Webster]
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