‖ obelus
(ˈɒbɪləs)
Pl. obeli (-laɪ).
[L. obelus spit, critical obelus, a. Gr. ὀβελός spit, obelisk, critical mark.]
= obelisk 2.
| 1382 Wyclif 2 Chron. Prol. ad fin., Than wher euer ȝe seen..obelus ouerturned, that is, a ȝerde, is sette before, there is betokened what the seuenty remenours addeden..and in Ebrue volumes it is not rad. 1833 Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1853) 140 They stand likewise without an obelus in Dr. Gaisford's respectable edition of the Florilegium. 1846 Trench Mirac. xv. (1862) 251 In other MSS...the obelus which hints suspicion, or the asterisk which marks rejection, is attached to it. 1889 Farrar Lives Fathers II. xvi. 351 To amend the Latin version..with asterisks and obeli. |