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Definition of Elides
1. elide [v] - See also: elide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elides
Literary usage of Elides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The whole is carried by three chains, on which the cover elides up and down, when
it is raised to allow incense to be thrown upon the live coals contained ..."
2. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1846)
"... elides, and Charles le Simple—Comparison of these tables according to the
figures only— Comparison of the provisions of the capitularies—General results ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"and elides, archbishop of Treves, with other children of high rank.1 The same
year died Frederick, ..."
4. The Home and Foreign Review (1863)
"I am unsparing," he says, " in the use of elisions for the reader ; nor have I
any scruples on this point, considering how freely Homer himself elides and ..."
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