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elision|ɪˈlɪʒən| [ad. L. ēlīsiōn-em, f. ēlīdĕre: see elide.] 1. The action of dropping out or suppressing: a. a letter or syllable in pronunciation; b. a passage in a book or connecting links in discourse. Also, an instance of either of these. Also fig.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 70 The Italian is so full of Vowels, that it must euer be cumbred with Elisions. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xii[i]. (Arb.) 129 If there were no cause of elision. 1710Steele Tatler No. 230. ⁋6 The..Elisions, by which Consonants of most obdurate Sound are joined together. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. I. 2 Standard words..are arbitrarily cut off by elision. 1870Bowen Logic iii. 57 The science claims, therefore, to fill up the gaps and elisions of ordinary discourse. 1893in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1936R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 20 Seven hues in white elision. 1962Sunday Times 28 Jan. 12/2 The elision of pay pause into pay restraint has at this stage scarcely been attempted. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia viii. 52 The process of learning to read entails the elision from the focus of attention of the confusing memory-images of the non-dominant hemisphere. †2. elision of the air: formerly assigned as the cause of sound (see quot.). Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §124 The Cause given of Sound, that it should be an Elision of the Air (whereby, if they mean anything, they mean Cutting or Dividing, or else an Attenuating of the Air) is but a Terme of Ignorance. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys.-Mech. Digress. 346 The Production and Modulation of the Voice by the Elision of the Air. 3. A breaking (so as to make a gap) by mechanical force. (Scarcely a recognised Eng. use.)
1760tr. Juan & Ulloa, Voyage to S. Amer. (1772) II. 98 The sea formed these large cavities..by its continual elisions. 1881Times 12 Mar., It [Casamicciola] is now half in ruins, and even those houses which have stood are crippled by elisions. |