Defn: In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word.
This method of elision will generally elucidate the correct usage.
All what he said was false” should be corrected by the elision of “all.
Three lines lower Milton has noelision of the y before a vowel in the line, Against the throne and monarchy of God.
We have only an apparent elision of y a few lines later in his aspiring To set himself in glory above his peers, for the line would be ruined were the y to be omitted by a reader.
There is elision of y in the line, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall.
But this elision is not permissible in any other instance, even when the substantive following the article begins with a vowel.
If time be not given for the full enunciation of any word which we attempt to speak, some of the syllables will of course be either lost by elision or sounded confusedly.
But in prose the elision should be very sparingly indulged; it is in general less agreeable, as well as less proper, than the regular form.
But hiatus is not regarded as existing when two vowels are brought together by the elision of a mute e; e.
The elision of s in words ending with us or is short, and sometimes even of the whole syllable, before the next word beginning with a vowel; in scen.
The author is not answerable for the non-elision of the vowel--the name is authentic; it stood on the site of the present Oriel College.
There is no elision at the medial pause; see below (s.
The easiest way of scanning the line is to ignore the elision of the final e in had-de, which is preserved, as often, by the caesural pause.
There was a faint elation as well as elision in the words; no more, but it seemed to make them sound more contemptuous.
Gallic resolution of the ct, nor the frequent elision of unaccented vowels, nor the great redundancy of pronouns.
Characteristic of the Piedmontese, the Lombard and the Emilian is the continualelision of the unaccented final vowels except a (e.
In the grammar and vocabulary the syllable which may be elided is enclosed in a bracket, and in compound words and phrases the elision is marked with an apostrophe, as in the preceding examples.
By elision I mean the cutting off one or more letters from a word, whereby two syllables come to be contracted into one, or the taking away an entire syllable.
In the following line by the elision and the apt introduction of short syllables he repeats the notion.
But this elision is not so allowable as the former.
