a. rare. [f. prec. after Gr. σιωπητικός taciturn.] Of the nature of aposiopesis.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. 1834, 292. Epanorthotick revocations and aposiopetick restraines.
1761. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), IV. xxvii. 126. That interjection of surprize … with the apposiopestic [sic] break after it, marked thus Z——ds!——
