† obelismn.
Obsolete. rare.
The action or practice of marking something as spurious.
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obelism1860
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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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n.1860- to have, hold, make, take strife
- to have, in warison
- to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle
- to have, know, see, etc no better wone
- to have, know, see, etc no other wone
- to have, make, take a person sworn
- to have, make, take sworn
- to have, or hold in veneration
- to have, receive, take a foil
- to have, receive, take a one's foil
- to have, receive, take a the foil
- to have, repulse
- to have, take a fancy for, to
- to have, take an end
- to have, take felicity in or to
- to have, take in charge
- to have, take the steer
- to have, take the steer of a country
- to have, take the steer of a etc
- to have, take, give charge of
- to have, take, give the charge of
- to have, take, occasionally bear suspicion
- to have, the repulse
- to havein ure
- to hawk a loogie