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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aphetic \A*phet"ic\, a. [Gr. ? letting go fr ? to let go.]
Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the
beginning of a word as an aphetic word or form --
{A*phet"ic*al*ly}, adv --New Eng. Dict.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
aphetic
adj : produced by aphesis
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