[f. as prec. after harmonicon, etc.] (See quot.)

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1834.  Penny Cycl., II. 165/2. Apollonicon, the name given to a chamber organ of vast power, supplied with both keys and barrels … first exhibited … in 1817.

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a. 1849.  H. Coleridge, Ess., I. 305. Sing ‘Songs of Reason’ to the grinding of a steam apollonicon.

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