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Definition of Obelizing
1. obelize [v] - See also: obelize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obelizing
Literary usage of Obelizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad by Homer, Walter Leaf (1886)
"... while obelizing with a rampart. the line, read Iv &v for fra, which does 105)
is made up of lines found in other 357. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"... but puts it in inverted commas, which is a minor kind of obelizing.
For "Nicotina "we should have been inclined to add a quotation from Parkinson's ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"... and about the level of the Homeric Hymns, thus mercilessly obelizing such
passages as 'The death of Hector,' and 'The interview of Priam with Achilles. ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1905)
"Even had there been no such tradition the mere fact that another form of the
ending was known to be in circulation would account for an obelizing or ..."
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