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Definition of Obelise
1. to obelize [v -LISED, -LISING, -LISES] - See also: obelize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obelise
Literary usage of Obelise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rome, in the Nineteenth Century: Containing a Complete Account of the Ruins by Charlotte Anne Eaton (1860)
"The names of the same royal father and son, •which are inscribed four times upon
the obelise in the Piazzo del Popolo, are once repeated here, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1824)
"The obelise, erected by Augustus in the Campus Martius, is said, by Pliny, to
have been the work of Sesostris ; and there are sufficient documents of its ..."
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