Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To mark or annotate with an obelus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mark with an obelisk; condemn as spurious, doubtful, or objectionable, by appending an obelisk; hence, to censure. Also obelise, and formerly obolize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To designate with an obelus; to mark as doubtful or spirituous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to mark a written or printed passage with an obelus

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek obelizein, from obelos, obelus.]

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Examples

  • We must take occasion here to obelize a custom which prevails too generally in this country.

    The Laws of Etiquette Unknown

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