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elide, v.|ɪˈlaɪd|
Also 7 Sc. elid.
[ad. L. ēlīd-ĕre to crush out, f. ē out + lædĕre to dash.]
†1. trans. To destroy, annihilate (the force of evidence). Obs.
1593Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. iv, The force and strength of their arguments is elided. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. vii. 117 Which doth elude and elide all that which they alleadge. 1688Ess. Magistracy in Harl. Misc. I. 9 They transfer a necessity of eliding them by clearer evidences.
b. Law, esp. Sc. To annul, do away with, quash, rebut. [So elidere in Roman Law.]
1597Acts Jas. VI (1816) 126 They wald haue elidit and stayit the samyn to haue bene put to ony probatioun. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 115 He may..take away, elid, and exclude his [the persewer's] action, clame, and petition. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 109 The concurring testimony of the husband and wife..is sufficient to elide this legal presumption. 1828Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, Whilk uncertainty is sufficient to elide the conclusions of the libel. 1880Muirhead Gaius iv. §124 He may..elide the exception.
2. To strike out, suppress, pass over in silence.
1847Grote Greece ii. xxx. IV. 153 Many of them made the still greater historical mistake of eliding these last four years altogether. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 750 Gibbon and Sismondi have elided these monarchs. 1870Bowen Logic (ed. 2) 133 The predesignations of quantity..belonging to the Predicate are usually elided in expression.
3. Gram. To omit (a vowel, or syllable) in pronunciation. Hence eˈlided ppl. a.
1796Brit. Crit. (T.), The consonant belonging to the elided syllable. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 47 Some sounds elided, others exaggerated. 1867A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iv. 342 It must remain an undecided question whether Chaucer would or would not have elided the vowel. |