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- noun Plural form of obelus.
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Parties of a town: The butchery, The cause-way, The sink, The obeli-sk, The low eating house, The prison, geol.
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Parties of a town: The butchery, The cause-way, The sink, The obeli-sk, The low eating house, The prison, geol.
Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions 2010
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Parties of a town: The butchery, The cause-way, The sink, The obeli-sk, The low eating house, The prison, geol.
Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions 2010
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Origen's symbols (obeli and asterisks), obsolete for nine centuries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Hexapla; marking with obeli the texts that occurred in the Septuagint without being in the original; adding according to Theodotion's version, and distinguishing with asterisks and metobeli the texts of the original which were not in the Septuagint; adopting from the variants of the Greek Version the texts which were closest to the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Octateuch (fragments) with some of the asterisks and obeli of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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I have thought it, for example, not humane to variegate the text of an Anthology with despairing obeli: and occasionally I have covered up an indubitable lacuna by artifices which I trust may pass undetected by the general reader and unreproved by the charitable critic.
Preface 1912
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Hexaplar Greek text -- that is, the LXX., with the corrections of Origen, the asterisks, obeli, etc., and with the references to the other Greek versions.
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