Athetize \Ath"e*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Athetized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Athetizing}.] [Gr. ?, fr. ? set aside, not fixed; ? not + ? to place.] To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]