elongation (elonggashon)

[ LL. elongare, lengthen, elongate: see elong, elongate.] 1. The act of elongating or lengthening; the state of being elongated or length ened. This whole universality of things, which we call the world, is indeed nothing else but a production, and elon gation , and dilatation of the natural goodne of Almighty God. Fother by , Atheomastix, p. 297. To this motion of elongation of the fibres is owing the union or conglutination of the parts of the body, when they are separated by a wound. Arbuthnot , Aliments. 2. Extension; continuation. His skin (excepting only his face and the palms of his hands) was entirely grown over with an horny excrescence called by the naturalists the elongation of the papillæ. Cambridge, The Scribleriad, note. May not the mountains of West more land and Cumber land be considered as elongations of these two chains? Pinkerton. 31. Distance; space which separates one thing from another. Glanville. - 4t. A removing to a distance; removal; rece ion. Our voluntary elongation of ourselves from God's presence must needs be a fearful introduction to an everlasting distance from him. Bp . Hall , Remains, p. 89. Concerning the nature or proper effects of this spot or stain (upon the soul], they have not been agreed: some call it an obligation or a guilt of punishment.... Some fancy it to be an elongation from God, by di imilitude of conditions. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 723. 5. In astron.: (a) The angular distance of a planet from the sun, as it appears to the eye of a spectator on the earth; apparent departure of a planet from the sun in its orbit: as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury. (6) The angular distance of a satellite from its primary. -6. In surg.: ( a ) A partial dislocation, oссаsioned by the stretching or lengthening of the married or unmarried, with a lover. The negligent husband, trusting to the efficacy of his principle, was undone by his wife's elopement from him. Arbuthnot . Graves. the law allows her no ali Black stone , Com., II. xv. Her imprudent elopement from her father. But in case of elopement mony.