Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being an ape, or of being apish.

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  • noun The quality or state of being an ape.
  • noun Apes, taken collectively.

Etymologies

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From ape +‎ -dom.

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Examples

  • If that panel is from Fantastic Four, does that mean that's one of the Red Ghost's Super-Apes, the pimps of Marvel apedom?

    A message from the Super-Apes David Campbell 2006

  • We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • To the northwest, the descendants of the Atlanteans, climbing unaided from apedom into primitive savagery, have not yet met the conquerors.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • To the northwest, the descendants of the Atlanteans, climbing unaided from apedom into primitive savagery, have not yet met the conquerors.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • To the northwest, the descendants of the Atlanteans, climbing unaided from apedom into primitive savagery, have not yet met the conquerors.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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  • Railroad telegraphers' shorthand meaning "Will not prepare the application of". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Compare apehood.

    January 20, 2013