elide (elid)

t.; pret. and pp. elided, eliding. [= [= Sp. Pg. elidir = It. elidere, L. eli dere, knock, strike, or dash out, force out, pre out, in gram. (tr. Gr. ἐκθλίβειν: see ecthlipsis) suppre (a vov vowel), hurt by striking: see lesion. Cf. collide.] 1†. To break or dash in pieces; crush. Before we answer unto these things, we are to cut off that whereunto they from whom these objections proceed do oftentimes fly for defence and succour, when the force and strength of their arguments is elided . Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 4. 2. In gram., to suppre or slur over the sound of in speech, or note the suppre ion of in writing: technically applied especially to the cutting off of a final vowel, as in "th' enemy," but in a more general sense to that of a syllable or any part of a word. See elision, 1.