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elide(dictionary)

elide (iou)



elide verb trans. M16.
[Latin elidere crush out, from e- E- + laedere to dash.]
a. Annul, quash, do away with. Chiefly Scots Law. M16-L19.
b. Make of no account, weaken or destroy, (the force of evidence). L16-L17.
Omit (a sound, syllable, etc.) by elision. L18.
A. S. Byatt He had a mannered Oxford voice, elided words, and used the pronoun 'one' frequently.
Pass over in silence; suppress, strike out, or omit, often by running several items together. M19.
F. Palgrave Gibbon and Sismondi have elided these monarchs.