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