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Didn't I once apostrophise you in a sonnet as "my canny lass"?

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

But she has put me in such a bad humour that I must go out of door and apostrophise the sun, like Lucifer.

From Marriage by Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone

Down by the Docks, the placards in the shops apostrophise the customer, knowing him familiarly beforehand, as, ‘Look here, Jack!’

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

No explanation or clue could be obtained from the patient, who continued to apostrophise the portrait in disconnected phrase, and to utter howls of agony and lamentation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

Finally Pixie turned round to apostrophise Miss Viva, who was in the act of striding the back of her chair, and immediately a flash of recognition leapt from eye to eye.

From More about Pixie by Groome, William H. C.