• Square-bracket

    Full definition of square-bracket

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To enclose in square brackets.
      • 1986, Valerie M. Thom, Birds in Scotland Chapter Scotland – its avifauna and geography, Scotland's geographical location (Map 1), projecting northwest from the main land-mass of Europe, and its wide variety of habitats are the principal factors responsible for the diversity of the 449 species (excluding those square-bracketed – see Chapter 11) currently on the Scottish list.
      • 2018, Michael Bath, Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings Chapter Alexander Seton's Suburban Villa: Neostoical Emblems and United Nations, I have square-bracketed the ‘t’ of ‘this’ because, as Loxley and his co-authors note, the additional letter is sanctioned by the Sibbald transcript of Drummond's notes, ‘Modern editors,’ they write, ‘amend “this” to “his”’, following a later printed text of the ‘Conversations’.71
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