elidable

Definitions

Capable of being elided.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“an elidable vowel”

“[…] and its being expired, and attaining Possession, are matters of Fact, requiring Probation, which are improper for an Inquest, and elidable, by a reply⟳ of Payment, or Intromission within the Legall, and Strowan was Served with Reservation of the Marquess Right, as accords of the Law.”

“That Sheridan himself did ever read⟳ out this couplet as it must inevitably be read⟳ if his theory be right, I do not believe⟳; but if he did not, then the superfluous syllables, claimed by him, would not be sounded; that is to say⟳, unconsciously, and in spite of himself, he would elide the elidable ones, and cut⟳ out the mute.”

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