Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being an ape, or of being apish.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality or state of being an ape.
- n. Apes, taken collectively.
Etymologies
- From ape + -dom. (Wiktionary)
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?”
“We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again.”
“To the northwest, the descendants of the Atlanteans, climbing unaided from apedom into primitive savagery, have not yet met the conquerors.”
“Somewhere, on the long path that led up from apedom, they had taken the wrong turning and had travelled since that day a long road of misery.”
“He was full grown now, with the grace of a Greek god and the thews of a bull, and, by all the tenets of apedom, should have been sullen, morose, and brooding; but he was not.”
“Gom Broon had tails, so that the brother told him that his subjects had not emerged from apedom and he must invent arts to eliminate the tails.”
“Not by Sexual Selection, for there is not the slightest evidence that nudity was ever popular in apedom.”
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“The fictional scientific advances in Rise ? allow Caesar to cross the boundaries of apedom into a new category.”
“My brother mused upon this revery, and, in a few days, published an extract from some scoundrel's travels in Gombroon, according to which the Gombroonians had not yet emerged from this early condition of apedom.”
“But Dr. Zaius, the benefits to apedom far outweigh this animal's suffering.”
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abetting, abdominal, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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hernesheir Railroad telegraphers' shorthand meaning "Will not prepare the application of". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. Compare apehood. Jan 19, 2013