elisionaladj.
/ᵻˈlɪʒn̩(ə)l/, /ᵻˈlɪʒən(ə)l/, U.S. /əˈlɪʒən(ə)l/ Of, relating to, or characterized by elision.
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1866 Reader 2 June 536 Prado may be pronounced Pra'o..but it need not be spelt with the elisional apostrophe.
1901 J. P. Dabney Musical Basis of Verse vi. 204 So fluent is the limpid Tuscan tongue..that it permits marvellous elisional effects, the measures seeming to melt one over the other.
1988 Compar. Critic. 10 282 The iambic octosyllables waver in our ear from line to line..because of classic cases of elisional uncertainty.
2011 C. Danta Lit. suspends Death ii. 32 The Akedah is so clipped or elisional in its mode of presentation that at times it is difficult to ascertain exactly what happens in it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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