Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Apostropha

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P, - Pale-dead,

Pale-dull - Panthino,

Pantingly, - Parisians,

Paris-ward: - Party,

Party-coated, - Patience,

Patience, - Pearl,

Perdie - Pernicious,

Perniciously, - Pestilent,

Petar, - Phisnomy,

Phlegmatic, - Pigeon-livered,

Pight, - Pious,

Plague-sore, - Playhouse,

Playing-day, - Plumed,

Plume-plucked, - Politic,

Politician, - Popinjay,

Popish, - Posterior,

Posterity, - Pox,

Poysam, - Precisian,

Pre-contract - Prescience

Prescribe, - Prick,

Prick, - Privilege,

Privilege, - Proffer,

Profferer, - Prop,

Propagate, - Protectress,

Protest, - Publicly,

Publicola, - Pure,

Purely, - Pygmalion,

Pyramid, - Pythagoras,

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Apostropha (O. Edd. apostrapha) contraction of a word by omission of a letter: “you find not the --s, and so miss the accent,” LLL IV, 2, 123.

Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.

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