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Obelizes vs Obolizes - What's the difference?

obelizes | obolizes |

As verbs the difference between obelizes and obolizes

is that obelizes is (obelize) while obolizes is (obolize).

obelizes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obelize)

  • obelize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * obelise

    Verb

  • to mark a written or printed passage with an obelus
  • References

    * “ Obelize, v.'']” listed on page 12 of volume VII (O–P), § i (O) of '''' [1st ed., 1909]
    ??Obelize''' ( to obelize], the action of marking as spurious.?[¶?'''1860 D. Coleridge in ''Trans. Philol. Soc.
    156 The office of a Dictionary..is eminently regulative. .. It separates the spurious from the genuine, either..in the way of exclusion,..or by careful obelism. * “ obelize, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989 * “ obelize, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., March 2004

    obolizes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obolize)

  • obolize

    English

    Verb

    (oboliz)
  • (Webster 1913)