Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set aside; reject as spurious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To reject a passage of text as
spurious .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek (athetos, "removed")
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