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apopemptic

adjective
ap·o·pemp·tic | \¦apə¦pem(p)tik\

Definition of apopemptic 

archaic

: sung or addressed to one departing : valedictory apopemptic hymns

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History and Etymology for apopemptic

Late Greek apopemptikos, from Greek apopemptos dimissed (from apopempein to send off, dismiss, from apo- + pempein to send) + -ikos -ic

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