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To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

Observation of the stars. [Obs.]

A spider. [Obs.]

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope.

Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.

One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

A view of life; that which gives such a view.

Harsh-sounding.