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Webster 1913 Edition
Apo
Ap′o
.[Gr. [GREEK]. See
Ab-
.] A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate;
as, in
. apo
cope (a cutting off
), apo
state, apo
stle (one sent away
), apo
carpous2.
Specifically, the revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament (called Revelation or the Apocalypse).
The new
apocalypse
of Nature. Carlyle.