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Definition of Double obelisk
1. Noun. A character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Obelisk
Literary usage of Double obelisk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An English Grammar Conformed to Present Usage: With an Objective Method of by Alfred Holbrook (1873)
"The points for reference are: The Obelisk or Dagger (f) The Asterisk ( *) The
Parallels (||) The double obelisk or Double Dagger (J) The Paragraph ( ^ ) The ..."
2. Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons by Richard Green Parker (1849)
"This mark | is called a double obelisk. This mark § is called a Section. ...
The Asterisk, Obelisk, double obelisk, Paragraph, Section, Parallel, ..."
3. The Empire of the Hittites by William Wright, Archibald Henry Sayce, Charles William Wilson, Claude Reignier Conder, William Harry Rylands (1884)
"1, 1) we find the double obelisk in a position which made me fancy that it denoted
a country, while it seems to interchange with a triple obelisk, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1879)
"... an obelisk," would be the ideograph for King; the double obelisk signifying
country. This assignment of characters agreed, in the opinion of Mr. Sayce, ..."
5. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology by Walter L. Nash (1882)
"However this may be, the double obelisk, ... by what looked like a single obelisk,
which if the double obelisk meant " country" must signify " king. ..."
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