apostrophic

Adjective

apostrophic

1. (rhetoric) Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue).
   • 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.1971, John Theodore Braun, The Apostrophic Gesture, page 22
2. Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
   • 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!”; […]2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “The Tractable Apostrophe”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 38