Meanings
alternative araphostic · alternative arrhaphostic · alternative arhaphostic
- not comparableSeamless, unsewn.
Do you think, because you are as impervious as an araphorostic shoe, that I, John Russelton, am equally impenetrable?
1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, or Adventures of a Gentleman (I. xxxiii. 292)1 more example
On the territory under consideration, the lower boundary of the Atdabanian is marked by the appearance of Olenellina, early araphorostic trilobites . . .
2014 September, IY Gogin, MS Vdovets, “Geosites of International Significance in the UNESCO WHS Lena Pillars Nature Park (Sakha Republic, Russia)”, in Geoheritage, volume 6, number 3
Origin
- Ancient Greekἄραφος“not sewed”
- Englisharaphorostic
From Ancient Greek ἄραφος (áraphos, “not sewed”) + -ic. Cognate with English rhapsody.
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