Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To set aside; reject as spurious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To reject a passage of text as spurious.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek  (athetos, "removed")

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