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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
obelize . - adjective
Marked with anobelus orobelisk ;condemned asspurious orcorrupt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, aside from them, my departures from the "literal" which have been obelized by Mr. Nabokov (I hope he has to look up that word) were dictated by the desire to do justice to Pushkin in preserving some poetic tone.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
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[414] Lewis, 'and the work I have perfected': Harkleian, 'because the work,' &c., 'because' being obelized.
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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-- The second clause ([Greek: kai eipen, Ouk oidate hoiou pneumatos este hymeis]) he obelized as probably not genuine: -- the third
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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[All these suggested doublets which I have obelized must be dismissed as untenable.] {25} We have in the same way double adoptions from the Greek, one direct, at least as regards the forms; one modified by its passage through some other language; thus, ‘adamant’ and ‘diamond’;
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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