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Elison   Listen
noun
Elison  n.  
1.
Division; separation. (Obs.)
2.
(Gram.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.






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