2. Verb. (third-person singular of asterisk) ¹
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Definition of Asterisks
1. asterisk [v] - See also: asterisk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asterisks
Literary usage of Asterisks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English Topography by William Upcott (1818)
"979- 990 (11 T- 11 u 2) are repeated with asterisks, and follow p. 990; —pp. ...
1095-1096 (12Y 3, misprinted T3) are repeated with asterisks;—pp. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Origen supplied what was lacking in the Septuagint from the Greek translations
and marked the additions by asterisks. Copyists generally omitted these ..."
3. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... as in kowo, ko - о ; wa, *a; wi, *i; wo, *o, '/•''• The asterisks stand for
the sound, which is most nearly expressed by w. ..."
4. The New Sporting Magazine (1833)
"... with blue borders and gilt edges— and read — we would fain put it all in dashes
and asterisks—" Miss Juliana Granville, John Street, Waterloo Road. ..."
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