araphorostic

araphorostic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄραφος (áraphos, “not sewed”) +‎ -ic. Cognate with English rhapsody.

Alternative forms

• araphostic, arrhaphostic, arhaphostic

Adjective

araphorostic (not comparable)

1. Seamless, unsewn.
   • 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pelham, or Adventures of a Gentleman (I. xxxiii. 292)

     Do you think, because you are as impervious as an araphorostic shoe, that I, John Russelton, am equally impenetrable?

   • 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:

     On the territory under consideration, the lower boundary of the Atdabanian is marked by the appearance of Olenellina, early araphorostic trilobites . . .