elisionn.

Brit.

/ᵻˈlɪʒn/, U.S.

/əˈlɪʒ(ə)n/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ēlīsiōn-, ēlīsiō.

Etymology: < classical Latin ēlīsiōn-, ēlīsiō forcing out (of tears), in post-classical Latin also (in grammar) action of dropping out a letter or syllable (3rd cent.) < ēlīs- , past participial stem of ēlīdere elide v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.Compare Middle French elision , French élision (1548), Spanish elisión (1580). In elision of the air n. at sense 3 after post-classical Latin elisio aeris (1580 or earlier).

I. Senses involving omission or conflation.

a. Grammar. The omission of a letter or syllable in pronunciation, usually running together the sounds on either side of it; (also) an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > by omission

elisiona1586

non-entry1650

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > unit of duration of speech sound > lengthening or shortening > contraction of two sounds into one

synalœpha1540

synaeresis1577

elisiona1586

synizesis1846

haplology1893

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > elision

elisiona1586

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2 The Italian is so full of Vowels, that it must euer be cumbred with Elisions.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 88 If there were no cause of elision.

1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie sig. C7^v The Synalæphas or Elisions in our toong are either necessary to auoid the..gaping in our verse..or may be vsd at pleasure, as for let vs, to say let's.

1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 230 The..Elisions, by which Consonants of most obdurate Sound are joined together.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 88. 157 The great peculiarity of Milton's versification..is the elision of one vowel before another.

1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 2 Standard words..are arbitrarily cut off by elision.

1880 J. Ruskin in Eclectic Mag. Aug. 142 The speech is as clear as a bell and as keen as an arrow; and its elisions and contractions are either melodious (‘na’ for ‘not’—‘pu'd’ for ‘pulled’) or as normal as in a Latin verse.

1916 Classical Jrnl. 12 43 It is often stated that long vowels suffer elision but rarely before a short.

1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 81/1 As for elisions in the middle of a word, called syncope, even purists do not hesitate to say bedlam (Bethlehem), bizness (business), can't, don't, I'll, isn't, foksil (forecastle), leppard (leopard), maudlin (Magdalen), Wenzday (Wednesday).

2008 Yearbk. Trad. Music 40 117 Rules of elision have evolved in the conjunction of syllables, words, and phrases, resulting in ‘silent’ syllables.

b. The merging or blending of sounds or words, often achieved by omitting certain elements.

ΚΠ

1855 Popular Educator 6 463/2 One particular use of the aspirated H, is to prevent elision of the two Vowels between which it may chance to be placed.

1881 G. F. Fort Early Hist. & Antiq. Freemasonry (rev. ed.) xvi. 171 Hence holy, with direct reference to the sanctity of relics, and domus, Lat. for house, by gradual elision into holidomus, later holy-dome.

1920 C. Pharr Homeric Greek 218 When the following word begins with a vowel which was formerly preceded by a lost consonant.., elision does not ordinarily take place.

1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 148 The Englishman..etymologised marmalade according to the folkloric elision of ‘Marie malade’.

c. The conflation or merging of concepts, facts, etc.; the blurring of one thing with or into another. Also: an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1958 J. M. Bradbury Fugitives iv. 64 He is often accomplishing an economical elision of concepts and percepts.

1962 Sunday Times 28 Jan. 12/2 The elision of pay pause into pay restraint has at this stage scarcely been attempted.

1980 B. Faust Women, Sex, & Pornography x. 116 The subtle elision of Freudian thinking with Marxism proved damaging to women.

1995 Observer 18 June 25 Indecent exposure is not molestation, despite NSPCC's casual elision.

2003 Art Rev. May 58/1 More than anything else, it is this odd elision of writing and drawing, of literal and pictorial reading, that makes Noble's work so hard to get a grip on.

2013 C. Pierson Just Prop. ii. 39 Platonism went through a series of changes before it emerged into..‘Neoplatonism’,..anticipating its systematic elision with Christianity under the guiding hand and watchful eye of St Augustine.

2. The cutting out or suppression of any information, esp. a passage in a book or part of an account; an instance of this. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission

overleapOE

omissiona1440

overskippingc1450

setting bya1592

omittancea1616

elision1812

Passover1822

1812 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Oct. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) I. 374 I hope, after it [sc. an address] is sent, there will be no more elisions. It is not now so long—73 lines—two less than allotted.

1870 F. C. Bowen Logic iii. 57 The science claims, therefore, to fill up the gaps and elisions of ordinary discourse.

1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 20 Seven hues in white elision.

1964 M. 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.

2017 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Feb. There is an art to social lying, the elision of unnecessary truth in order to smooth over the jagged edges in relationships.

†II. Senses involving breaking or striking.

3. Breakage or striking with physical force, so as to split or force a gap; an instance of this. Obsolete. elision of the air n. Obsolete a supposed action of this kind suggested as the cause of sound.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > in specific way or having specific cause

elision1615

fire-cracking1806

crazing1832

microcracking1956

the world > matter > physics > science of sound > [noun] > supposed cause of sound

elision of the air1626

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 645 This Elision or breaking is made through the cleft when it is constringed and angustated or straightned by the articulation of the Arytaenoides or Ewre-gristle and the Muscles.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §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.

1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 346 The Production and Modulation of the Voice by the Elision of the Air.

1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain i. 5 Complications of the same Spirits, with other very firce [sic] particles, and vehement elisions, or strikings of these, one against another, are required.

1682 R. Harrison Strange Relation Suddain & Violent Tempest 8 By this Elision and Attrition of the Clouds, Fire or Flame was accended.

1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. II. i. viii. 81 The sea formed these large cavities..by its continual elisions [Sp. de su continuo batidero].

1881 Times 12 Mar. It [sc. Casamicciola] is now half in ruins, and even those houses which have stood are crippled by elisions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	elision
释义	elisionn. Brit. /ᵻˈlɪʒn/, U.S. /əˈlɪʒ(ə)n/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ēlīsiōn-, ēlīsiō. Etymology: < classical Latin ēlīsiōn-, ēlīsiō forcing out (of tears), in post-classical Latin also (in grammar) action of dropping out a letter or syllable (3rd cent.) < ēlīs- , past participial stem of ēlīdere elide v. + -iō -ion suffix¹.Compare Middle French elision , French élision (1548), Spanish elisión (1580). In elision of the air n. at sense 3 after post-classical Latin elisio aeris (1580 or earlier). I. Senses involving omission or conflation. 1. a. Grammar. The omission of a letter or syllable in pronunciation, usually running together the sounds on either side of it; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > by omission elisiona1586 non-entry1650 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > unit of duration of speech sound > lengthening or shortening > contraction of two sounds into one synalœpha1540 synaeresis1577 elisiona1586 synizesis1846 haplology1893 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > elision elisiona1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2 The Italian is so full of Vowels, that it must euer be cumbred with Elisions. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 88 If there were no cause of elision. 1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie sig. C7^v The Synalæphas or Elisions in our toong are either necessary to auoid the..gaping in our verse..or may be vsd at pleasure, as for let vs, to say let's. 1710 J. Swift in J. Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 230 The..Elisions, by which Consonants of most obdurate Sound are joined together. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 88. 157 The great peculiarity of Milton's versification..is the elision of one vowel before another. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 2 Standard words..are arbitrarily cut off by elision. 1880 J. Ruskin in Eclectic Mag. Aug. 142 The speech is as clear as a bell and as keen as an arrow; and its elisions and contractions are either melodious (‘na’ for ‘not’—‘pu'd’ for ‘pulled’) or as normal as in a Latin verse. 1916 Classical Jrnl. 12 43 It is often stated that long vowels suffer elision but rarely before a short. 1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 81/1 As for elisions in the middle of a word, called syncope, even purists do not hesitate to say bedlam (Bethlehem), bizness (business), can't, don't, I'll, isn't, foksil (forecastle), leppard (leopard), maudlin (Magdalen), Wenzday (Wednesday). 2008 Yearbk. Trad. Music 40 117 Rules of elision have evolved in the conjunction of syllables, words, and phrases, resulting in ‘silent’ syllables. b. The merging or blending of sounds or words, often achieved by omitting certain elements. ΚΠ 1855 Popular Educator 6 463/2 One particular use of the aspirated H, is to prevent elision of the two Vowels between which it may chance to be placed. 1881 G. F. Fort Early Hist. & Antiq. Freemasonry (rev. ed.) xvi. 171 Hence holy, with direct reference to the sanctity of relics, and domus, Lat. for house, by gradual elision into holidomus, later holy-dome. 1920 C. Pharr Homeric Greek 218 When the following word begins with a vowel which was formerly preceded by a lost consonant.., elision does not ordinarily take place. 1993 J. Meades Pompey (1994) 148 The Englishman..etymologised marmalade according to the folkloric elision of ‘Marie malade’. c. The conflation or merging of concepts, facts, etc.; the blurring of one thing with or into another. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ 1958 J. M. Bradbury Fugitives iv. 64 He is often accomplishing an economical elision of concepts and percepts. 1962 Sunday Times 28 Jan. 12/2 The elision of pay pause into pay restraint has at this stage scarcely been attempted. 1980 B. Faust Women, Sex, & Pornography x. 116 The subtle elision of Freudian thinking with Marxism proved damaging to women. 1995 Observer 18 June 25 Indecent exposure is not molestation, despite NSPCC's casual elision. 2003 Art Rev. May 58/1 More than anything else, it is this odd elision of writing and drawing, of literal and pictorial reading, that makes Noble's work so hard to get a grip on. 2013 C. Pierson Just Prop. ii. 39 Platonism went through a series of changes before it emerged into..‘Neoplatonism’,..anticipating its systematic elision with Christianity under the guiding hand and watchful eye of St Augustine. 2. The cutting out or suppression of any information, esp. a passage in a book or part of an account; an instance of this. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission overleapOE omissiona1440 overskippingc1450 setting bya1592 omittancea1616 elision1812 Passover1822 1812 Ld. Byron Let. 2 Oct. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) I. 374 I hope, after it [sc. an address] is sent, there will be no more elisions. It is not now so long—73 lines—two less than allotted. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic iii. 57 The science claims, therefore, to fill up the gaps and elisions of ordinary discourse. 1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 20 Seven hues in white elision. 1964 M. 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. 2017 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Feb. There is an art to social lying, the elision of unnecessary truth in order to smooth over the jagged edges in relationships. †II. Senses involving breaking or striking. 3. Breakage or striking with physical force, so as to split or force a gap; an instance of this. Obsolete. elision of the air n. Obsolete a supposed action of this kind suggested as the cause of sound. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > in specific way or having specific cause elision1615 fire-cracking1806 crazing1832 microcracking1956 the world > matter > physics > science of sound > [noun] > supposed cause of sound elision of the air1626 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 645 This Elision or breaking is made through the cleft when it is constringed and angustated or straightned by the articulation of the Arytaenoides or Ewre-gristle and the Muscles. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §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. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 346 The Production and Modulation of the Voice by the Elision of the Air. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain i. 5 Complications of the same Spirits, with other very firce [sic] particles, and vehement elisions, or strikings of these, one against another, are required. 1682 R. Harrison Strange Relation Suddain & Violent Tempest 8 By this Elision and Attrition of the Clouds, Fire or Flame was accended. 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S.-Amer. II. i. viii. 81 The sea formed these large cavities..by its continual elisions [Sp. de su continuo batidero]. 1881 Times 12 Mar. It [sc. Casamicciola] is now half in ruins, and even those houses which have stood are crippled by elisions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1586
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