verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of obelise; to mark or annotate with an obelus (a typographical symbol used to indicate deletion, corruption, or dubious text)
Usage: chiefly British spelling; scholarly/editorial context; rare in modern usage
Examples
- The editor obelises the corrupted passage to signal its questionable authenticity.
- In critical editions, the scholar obelises words that appear only in later manuscripts.
- The textual apparatus obelises several lines deemed to be later interpolations.
- Medieval scribes sometimes obelise entries they suspected were erroneous.