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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 E·li·son 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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