obelize
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
Definition of obelize
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To mark (a written or printed passage) with an obelus; to judge as spurious or doubtful.
“All modern classicists like to display due caution before coming to a conclusion and will reluctantly obelise any words in a manuscript that resist obvious emendation before deciding that on balance one version is better than another.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Hellenic Ancient Greek ὀβελίζειν (obelízein), from ὀβελός (obelós, “obelus”).
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