Sentence:  Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a "full-point", a point called "come", answering to our colon-point, a point called "virgil" answering to our comma-point, the <WSD>"parenthesis</WSD>-points" and "interrogative-point", were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth<!--sic--> century. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, '''(''' and ''')''' (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).