[f. prec.]
1. trans. To provide with brackets; to enclose (words, expressions, formulæ, etc.) within brackets.
1870. Jebb, Sophocles’ Elect. (ed. 2), 14/2. Dindorf … brackets the line as spurious.
2. To couple or connect (two or more lines of writing, etc.) by means of a brace; esp. so to connect two or more names of equal merit in a class-list; hence fig. to mention two persons or things together so as to imply that they are equal or have something in common.
1861. Sat. Rev., 23 Nov., 557. We entirely approve of his … reluctance to be bracketed with a person of this sort.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. ix. 348. It is bracketted with the massacre of Saint Brice.
1869. Daily News, 30 Jan., 5/4. He has been only four times beaten for both prizes, as often bracketed.
