athetizes

Verb

athetize (third-person singular simple present athetizes, present participle athetizing, simple past and past participle athetized)

1. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To reject a passage of text as spurious.
   • But this is a doubtful compliment to a ship ; the alternative "a first-rate sailor," suits the context better, and so here, "or first-rate build," primarie compacti (Döderl[ein]), avoids the awkward tautology with νεοτευχέες which made Zenod[otos] athetize the line.1886, Walter Leaf, The Iliad: Edited with English Notes and Introduction, volume 1, London: Macmillan and Co., translation of Ἰλιάς [Iliás] by Homer, page 157, column 2