Ap'o-pēmpt'ic, a.

a. [Gr. ἀποπεμπτικός, valedictory, from ἀποπέμπειν, to send off or away, from ἀπό, and πέμπειν, to send.] Sung or addressed to a stranger on his departure from a place to his own country;—applied to a kind of song or hymn among the ancients.