Note: Will, auxiliary, may be used elliptically for will go.
Note: Up is used ellipticallyfor get up, rouse up, etc.
Note: Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you say is right, true.
Defn: Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
No farther, (used elliptically for) go no farther; say no more, etc.
Note: Welcome is used elliptically for you are welcome.
O for, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer.
Note: True is sometimes usedelliptically for It is true.
Righi found that the reflected light was slightly elliptically polarized, the axes of the ellipse being of very unequal magnitude.
If in a straight line, it is plane polarized; if in a circular direction, it is circularly polarized light; when elliptical, it is elliptically polarized light.
Elliptically polarized light is something between the two, not in a straight line, and not in a circular line; the course of vibration is an ellipse.
In such a phrase as “Had I have heard of it,” the verb have is redundant, for had here is used elliptically for if I had, and carries the contingency to the past.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elliptically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
