athetize (third-person singular simple present athetizes, present participle athetizing, simple past and past participle athetized)
(transitive) To reject a passage of text as spurious.
Source: Wiktionary
Ath"e*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Athetized; p. pr. & vb. n. Athetizing.] [Gr. , fr. set aside, not fixed; not + to place.]
Definition: To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 January 2025
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; “We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba”; “trace the student’s progress”; “trace one’s ancestry”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
