Apostrophic

7 June 1820, Lord Byron, a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, […]

The approach itself is apostrophic; or, if a more canonical term is required, it is phenomenological.

All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: “Fie on’t! O fie!”; […]