אַפִּיקְטְוִיזִין, (corr. אַפּוֹ׳) f. (ἀποκοτταβίζειν) orig. playing at cottabus, or squirting wine into a bowl; trnsf. (S.) the gourmand’s practice of taking an emetic before meal; to vomit. Sabb. 12ᵃ; 123ᵃ; 123ᵇ. Ib. XXII, 6. Tosef. ib. XVI (XVII), 22, Var. ed. Zuck. אפקטויזין. Succ. 40ᵇ; B. Kam. 102ᵃ; Sifra B’har ch. I, end אפיקטפיזים (corr. acc.). [A noun ἀποκοττάβισις to which our w. would correspond, is not in the vocabulary.]