An archaic or rare term possibly related to apotheosis or a similar elevation or transformation.
Possibly a variant or corrupted form of apotheosis, or from Greek apo- 'away' combined with thesis 'placing, proposition'—the etymology is highly uncertain and the word appears to be obsolete.
Words like 'apothesis' remind us that many medieval and early modern terms vanished not because they were bad words, but because printing standardized spelling and eliminated variant pronunciations that once flourished in oral tradition.
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