ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] a. Addressed in an apostrophe. b. Contracted by apostrophe.
1818. trans. Matthiæ’s Grk. Gram. (1829), I. 49. The apostrophized word is often contracted into one with the following word [e.g.] διὸ … more correctly written δι’ ὄ.
