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obelus

[ ob-uh-luhs ]

noun

plural obeli
  1. a mark (− or ÷) used in ancient manuscripts to point out spurious, corrupt, doubtful, or superfluous words or passages.


obelus

/ ˈɒɪə /

noun

  1. a mark (— or ÷) used in editions of ancient documents to indicate spurious words or passages
  2. another name for dagger
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of obelus1

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin < Greek Dzó spit, pointed pillar
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of obelus1

C14: via Late Latin from Greek obelos spit
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Example Sentences

It makes of satire a frozen obelus, as dependent upon divisiveness as the president himself.

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The object therefore of Moses' voyage to Alexandria was probably that he might add to the Armenian text the Sections of Ammonius, and also the asterisks and obeli of Origen's Hexaplaric copy128.

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It Harklean. represents in the main the text of the later Greek MSS., but it has important textual notes, and has adopted a system of asterisks and obeli from the Hexaplar LXX.

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To obtain a thoroughly correct text, he marked with an obelus the lines he considered spurious; other signs were used by him to indicate notes, varieties of reading, repetitions and interpolations.

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In his peculiar notation, Asides are marked by inverted commas, and obvious stage business is indicated by an obelus.

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