eloin 
I'll tell thee now (dear love) what thou shall do 
To anger destiny, as she doth us ; 
How I shall stay, ^*" v *%~ thuj, ^ ^^^^ ; e-16ng'ga-tiv) 
If the person be conveyed out of the sheriff's jurisdic- 
tion the sheriff may return that he is eloigned. 
Blackstone, Com., III. viii. 
Il.t intrans. To abscond. 
1882 
(6) The extension of a part beyond 
ligaments. 
its natural dimensions. 
^^ a. [< elongate + 
-iveT] Tending to", productive of, or exhibiting 
elongation; extended. [Bare.] 
This elongative effort. Congregationalist, Oct. 22, 1886. 
elope (e-16p'), v. i.; pret. and pp. eloped, ppr. 
eloinatet, eloignatet (e-loi'nat), v. t. [< eloin, e \ ^i n g\ [Formerly also ellope; < D. ontloopen 
(= G. entlaitfen = Dan. iindlobe), run away, < 
out- (= G. eiit- = AS. and-: see and-), away, 4- 
loopen, run (> E. lope, q. v.), = AS. Medpan, E. 
leap, q. v.] To run away; escape; break loose 
legal or natural f ' 
ith a lover or 
duty or social restraints. 
But now, when Philtra saw my lands decay 
And former livelod fayle, she left me quight, 
And to my brother did ellope streight way. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. Iv. 9. 
It is necessary to treat women as members of the body 
politick, since great numbers of them have eloped from 
their allegiance. Addison, Freeholder. 
else 
pulpit eloquence; a speaker, speech, or writing 
of great eloquence; the eloquence of tears or of 
silent grief. 
Ther is non that is here, 
Of eloquence that shal be thy pere. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Franklin's Tale, 1. 6. 
True eloquence [in source or origin] I find to be none but 
the serious and hearty love of truth. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
Love and elope, as modern ladies do. 
Cauithorn, Nobility. 
Southey writes to his daughter Edith in. 1824 A 1 the e i OQUen t (el'6-kwent), a. [= F. eloquent = Pr. 
maids eloped because I had turned a man out of the kitch- C1 "Y v J,^ , ''. L p Tt tlnnupnte ( 
eu at eleven o'clock on the preceding night." eloquen = bp. elocueiite == Pg. It. eloquente, <> 
2 "after elongate, q. v.] To remove ; 
eloiu. 
Nor is some vulgar Greek so far adulterated, and eloign- 
ated from the true Greek, as Italian is from the Latin. 
Howell, Foreign Travel, p. 149. 
eloinmentt, eloignmentt (e-loin'ment), n. [< 
eloin, eloign, + -ment, after F. Eloignement."] Ee- 
moval to a distance ; hence, distance ; remote- 
ness. 
He discovers an eloigntiient from vulgar phrases much 
becoming a person of quality. Shenstone. 
elomet, n. Orpiment. 
elongt (e-16ng'), v. t. [< LL. elongare, remove, 
keep aloof, prolong, protract, < e, out, + lon- 
gus, long : see long*. Cf. eloin.] 1. To elon- 
gate; lengthen out. 
Ne pulle it not, but goodly plaine elonge, 
Ne pitche it not to sore into the vale, 
Nor breke it not all douu aboute a dale. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 
2. To put far off ; retard. 
By sea, and hills elonged from thy sight, 
Thy wonted grace reducing to my mind, 
Instead of sleep thus I occupy the night. 
Wyatt, The Lover Prayeth Venus. 
Upon the roof the bird of sorrow sat, 
Elonging ioyful day with her sad note. 
G. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph, ii. 24. 
elongate (e-16ng'gat), v. ; pret. and pp. elon- 
gated, ppr. elongating. [< LL. elongatus, pp. of 
elongare: see elong.] I. trans. 1. To make long 
or longer; lengthen; extend, stretch, or draw 
out in length : as, to elongate a rope by splicing, eloper (e-16 per), n. 
Here the spire turns round a very elongated axis. 
W. B. Carpenter, Micros., 465. 
2f. To remove further off. 
The first star of Aries in the time of Meton the Athenian ElOpCS ^.- , _. ~ _-,-.-, 
was placed in the intersection, which is now elongated and group of malacopterygian fishes : same as the 
removed eastward twenty-eight degrees. family ElopidO!. 
Sir r. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. is. Elophilffit (e-lof'i-le), n. pi. [NL. (Htibner, 
II. intrans. To recede ; move to a greater 1816), prop. Helophilai, < Gr. CAOC, palus, a marsh, 
distance ; particularly, to recede apparently + $i/j>c,, loving.] A group of pyralid moths. 
from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [Rare.] elopian (e-16'pi-an), n. A fish of the family 
elongate (f-16ng'gat), a. [< LL. elongatus, pp.: Etopidic. Sir J."Bichardson. 
see the verb.] Lengthened; extended or pro- Elopidffl (e-lop'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Elops - 1 
duced; attenuated; specifically, in zool. and 
hot., disproportionately or comparatively long 
or extended: as, a worm has an elongate body; 
a proboscis is an elongate snout; elongate an- 
tennre are about as long as the body of an in- 
sect ; elongate elytra extend beyond the abdo- 
men ; an elongate flower-stem. 
elongation (e-16ng-ga'shon), n. [< ME^etonj/a- 
De Quincey, Rhetoric. 
What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly 
found to be rhetoric in the study. 
Thoreau, Walden, p. 111. 
( Hugh] Peters would seem to have been one of those men 
gifted with what is sometimes called eloquence; that is, 
the faculty of stating things powerfully from momentary 
feeling, and not from that conviction of the higher rea- 
son which alone can give force and permanence to words. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 248. 
2. That which is expressed in an eloquent 
manner: as, a flow of eloquence. 
Then I'll commend her volubility, 
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. 
Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 
Syn. 1. Elocution, Rhetoric, etc. See oratory. 
' pr' 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 265. 
elopement (e-16p'ment), . [< elope + -ment.'] 
A running away; an escape; private or unli- 
censed departure from the place or station to 
which one is bound by duty or law : specifical- 
ly applied to the running away of a woman, 
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. 
Her imprudent elopement from her father. Graves. 
But in case of elopement . . . the law allows her no ali- 
mony. Blackstone, Com., II. xv. 
One who elopes. 
Nothing less, believe me, shall ever urge my consent to 
wound the chaste propriety of your character, by making 
you an eloper with a duellist. Miss Burney, Cecilia, ii. 
-idee.] A family of clupeiform isospondylous 
fishes, resembling herrings, but much larger. 
They have a completed lateral line and a flat membrane- 
bone between the branches of the lower jaw. They have 
cycloid scales, naked head, and terminal mouth, bounded 
on the sides by the supramaxillaries, which are composed 
of three elements. The species are very few, though wide- 
ly distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, sometimes 
entering fresh water. They belong to the genera Elops 
r~ yxTi^i ** f?~ -H' A' ~ f~. T, T" and M egalops. See cut under Elops. 
cioun, < OF. elongation, F elongation = fg.elon- Eiop^a (el-o-pl'na), n. pi. [NL., < Elops + 
gacdto = It. elongazione, < ML. elongaho(n-), < _ in * -, In G unt h e r i s classification of fishes, the 
LL. elongare, lengthen, elongate : see elong, gixth of his ciupeidce, with the upper jaw 
elongate.] 1. The act of elongating or length- ^0,.^,. t h an the lower, the abdomen rounded, 
ening; the state of being elongated or length- 
ened. 
L. eloquen(t-)s, speaking, having the faculty of 
speech, eloquent, ppr. of eloqui, speak out, < 
e, out, + loqui, speak.] 1. Having the power 
of expressing strong emotions in vivid and ap- 
propriate speech; able to utter moving thoughts 
or words: as, an eloquent orator or preacher; 
an eloquent tongue. 
And for to loken ouermore, 
Next of science the seconde 
Is Rhetoric, whose faconde 
Aboue all other is eloquent. 
Oower, Conf. Amant., vii. 
Lucullus was very eloquent, well spoken, and excellent- 
ly well learned in the Greek and Latin tongues. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 421. 
She was the most eloquent of her age, and cunning in 
all languages. B. Jonson, Masque of Queens. 
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament 
Broke him, as that dishonest victory 
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, 
Kill'd with report that old man eloquent. 
Milton, Sonnets, v. 
2. Expressing strong emotions with fluency 
and power; movingly uttered or expressed; 
stirring; persuasive: as, an eloquent address; 
eloquent history; an eloquent appeal to a jury. 
IJonbtlesse that indeed according to art is most eloquent 
which returnes and approaches neerest to nature from 
whence it came. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
Burke, though he had long and deeply disliked Chat- 
ham, combined with Fox in paying an eloquent tribute to 
his memory. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xiv. 
3. Manifesting or exciting emotion, feeling, or 
interest through any of the senses; movingly 
expressive or affecting: as, eloquent looks or 
gestures ; a hush of eloquent silence. 
Give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse 
most eloquent music. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2 (Globe ed.). 
4. Giving strong expression or manifestation ; 
ii.o n .. v Y. . v .v~ i~. of discouragement, 
and an osseous gular plate : same as the family Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 131. 
wo^^eSffls^^^o^antt SJWfc^ JjJ^ "&-& $'&&% JS& 
gation, and dilatation of the natural goodness of Almighty to or having the characters of the Elopmf 
God. Fotherby, Atheomastix, p. 297. II. . A fish of the group Elopina. 
To this motion of elongation of the fibres is owing the elopitinumt, n. An old name for vitriol. 
union or conglutination" of the parts of the body, when Elo"p8 (el'op's). n. [NL., < L. clops, < Gr. ITiOiji, 
they are separated by a wound. Arbuthnot, Aliments. propi iUo ^ a sea -fi s h, also a serpent SO called, 
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 papilla;. 
Cambridge, The Scribleriad, note. 
May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumber- 
land be considered as elongations of these two chains ? 
Pinkerton. 
3f. Distance ; space which separates one thing 
from another. Glanville. 4f. A removing to 
a distance ; removal ; recession. 
Our voluntary elongation of ourselves from God's pres- 
to an everlast- 
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 dissimilitude 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, (ft) The an- 
gular distance of a satellite from its primary. 
6. Insurg.: (a) A partial dislocation, occa- 
sioned by the stretching or lengthening of the 
Big-eyed Herring (Elops saurus}. 
prop, adj., mute.] The typical genus of the 
family Elopidai. JS. saurus, known as the ten-ptmndn- 
and big-eyed herring, is a widely diffused species in both 
eloquence (el'o-kwens), n. [< ME. eloquence, 
< OF. eloquence, F. eloquence = Pr. cloquencia, 
rloquensa = Sp. elociiencia = Pg. eloquencia = 
It. eloquensia (obs.), eloquenza, < L. eloquentia, 
< eloquen(t-~)s, eloquent: see eloquent.'] 1. The 
quality of being eloquent; moving utterance 
or expression ; the faculty, art, or act of utter- 
ing or employing thoughts and words springing 
from or expressing strong emotion in a manner 
to excite corresponding emotion in others ; by 
extension, the power or quality of exciting 
emotion, sympathy, or interest in any way : as, 
to please, affect, or persuade. 
Some who (their hearers swaying where they would) 
Could force affections, comfort and deject, 
With learned lectures eloquently told. 
Stirling, Domes-day, The Tenth Houre. 
eloquioust, a. [< L. eloquium, eloquence, < elo- 
qui, speak out: see eloquent. ,] Eloquent. 
Eloquioui hoarie beard, father Nestor, you were one of 
them ; And you, M. Ulisses, the prudent dwarfe of Pallas, 
another ; of whom it is Illiadized that your very nose dropt 
sugarcandie. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc.. VI. 162). 
elrich (el'rich), a. Same as eldricli. 
else (els), adi: [< ME. elles, ellis, often elle, < 
AS. elles, in another manner, otherwise, be- 
sides, = OFries. elles, ellis = OHG. alles, elles, 
MHG. alles = OSw. aljes, Sw. eljest = Dan. el- 
lers, otherwise ; an adverbial gen. of *ali-, ele- 
(in comp. ele-land, another land, eUlende, of 
another land, etc.) = Goth, alis (gen. aljis) = L. 
alius = Gr. o/l/lof, other. Cf. L. alias, prob. an 
old gen., at another time, otherwise : see aliiis, 
and cf . alien, allo-, etc.] If. In another or a dif- 
ferent manner; in some other way ; to a differ- 
ent purpose ; otherwise. 
V. mr perfect self is else devoted. Shak., T. G. of V., Iv. 2. 
2. In another or a different case ; if the fact 
were different ; otherwise. 
ye shule nat han mcde at youre fadir. 
Wyeiif, Mat. vi. l (Oxf.). 
