obelize, v.
(ˈɒbɪlaɪz)
Also 9 erron. obolize.
[ad. Gr. ὀβελίζ-ειν to mark with a critical obelus: see obelus and -ize.]
trans. To mark (a word or passage) with an obelus or obelisk; to condemn as spurious or corrupt.
| [1611 Coryat Crudities Ep. to Rdr. b ij b, Such seuere Aristarches as are wont ὀβελίζειν.] 1656 Blount Glossogr., Obelise,..to make a long stroke in writing, to signifie somewhat to be put out. 1830 De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 672 A suitable dictionary..distinguishes the gold and silver words, and obolizes the base Brummagem copper coinage. 1837 Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes I. 200 note, These and the three following verses were, according to the Scholiast, obelized by the illustrious grammarians. 1876 Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 216 The line Od. ii. 631, obelised as spurious. |
So ˈobelism [Gr. ὀβελισµός, f. ὀβελίζειν to obelize], the action of marking as spurious.
| 1860 D. Coleridge in Trans. Philol. Soc. 156 The office of a Dictionary..is eminently regulative... It separates the spurious from the genuine, either..in the way of exclusion,..or by careful obelism. |