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Definition of athetize in English: athetize(British athetise) verb ˈaθɪtʌɪzˈaTHəˌtīz [with object]rare Reject (a passage in a text) as spurious. 〈罕〉（因内容不实而）将（文中某一段落）删除 some editions omitted or athetized the passage due to its hyperbolic nature Example sentencesExamples - When Homer said something that would better have been left unsaid, one option for the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria was simply to athetize it - to declare it spurious on the ground that Homer could not have said such a thing.
- When he asserted that the entire book should be athetized, he became one of the first in a long line of scholars to consign the entire book to the status of a book fragment.
- Aristaracus, like many later commentators, was uncertain about the purpose of this passage and therefore athetized it.
- You may find it was a line athetized by Aristarchus, or a word variant suggested by Zenodotus, in which case you can suspect your perception of the Greek language is getting better.
Derivativesnoun rare Proponents of this solution point to Aristarchus' athetesis of line 92, a verse that is also missing in papyrus 12, a mid-third-century BCE text. Example sentencesExamples - No other work of Euripides has come down to us with so many distortions and has undergone so many atheteses as Iphigenia at Aulis.
OriginLate 19th century: from Greek athetos 'without position' + -ize, rendering the Greek verb athetein. Definition of athetize in US English: athetize(British athetise) verbˈaTHəˌtīz [with object]rare Reject (a passage in a text) as spurious. 〈罕〉（因内容不实而）将（文中某一段落）删除 some editions omitted or athetized the passage due to its hyperbolic nature Example sentencesExamples - You may find it was a line athetized by Aristarchus, or a word variant suggested by Zenodotus, in which case you can suspect your perception of the Greek language is getting better.
- When he asserted that the entire book should be athetized, he became one of the first in a long line of scholars to consign the entire book to the status of a book fragment.
- Aristaracus, like many later commentators, was uncertain about the purpose of this passage and therefore athetized it.
- When Homer said something that would better have been left unsaid, one option for the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria was simply to athetize it - to declare it spurious on the ground that Homer could not have said such a thing.
OriginLate 19th century: from Greek athetos ‘without position’ + -ize, rendering the Greek verb athetein. |