E*lic`i*ta"tion (?), n. The act of eliciting. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.
E*lide" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elided; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliding.] [L. elidere to strike out or off; e + laedere to hurt by striking: cf. F. élider. See Lesion.] 1. To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. [Obs.] Hooker.
2. (Gram.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
El`i*gi*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. éligibilité.] The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
El"i*gi*ble (?), a. [F. éligible, fr. L. eligere. See Elect.] 1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
The more eligible of the two evils.
Burke.
El"i*gi*ble*ness, n. The quality of being worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
El"i*gi*bly, adv. In an eligible manner.
El"i*mate (?), v. t. [L. elimatus, p. p. of elimare to file up; e out + limare to file, fr. lima file.] To render smooth; to polish. [Obs.]
E*lim"i*nant (?), n. (Math.) The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
E*lim"i*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating (?).] [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.] 1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Eliminate my spirit, give it range
Through provinces of thought yet unexplored.
Young.
2. (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating.
Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
E*lim`i*na"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. élimination.] 1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
2. (Alg.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate, 4.]
E*lim"i*na*tive (?), a. (Physiol.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
E*lin"guate (?), v. t. [L. elinguare.] To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).
E`lin*gua"tion (?), n. [L. elinguatio. See Elinguid.] (O. Eng. Law) Punishment by cutting out the tongue.
E*lin"guid (?), a. [L. elinguis, prop., deprived of the tongue; hence, speechless; e + lingua tongue.] Tongue-tied; dumb. [Obs.]
E*liq"ua*ment (?), n. A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
El`i*qua"tion (?), n. [L. eliquatio, fr. eliquare to clarify, strain; e + liquare to make liquid, melt.] (Metallurgy) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.
E*li"son (?), n. [L. elisio, fr. elidere, elisum, to strike out: cf. F. élision. See Elide.] 1. Division; separation. [Obs.] Bacon.
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.
E*li"sor (?), n. [F. éliseur, fr. élire to choose, L. eligere. See Elect.] (Eng. Law) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
||É`lite" (?), n. [F., fr. élire to choose, L. eligere. See Elect.] A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.
E*lix" (?), v. t. [See Elixate.] To extract. [Obs.] Marston.
E*lix"ate (?), v. t. [L. elixatus, p. p. of elixare to seethe, fr. elixus thoroughly boiled; e + lixare to boil, lix ashes.] To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething. [Obs.] Cockeram.
El`ix*a"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. élixation.] A seething; digestion. [Obs.] Burton.
E*lix"ir (?), n. [F. élixir, Sp. elixir, Ar. eliksr the philosopher's stone, prob. from Gr. &?; dry, (hence probably) a dry powder; cf. Skr. ksh to burn.] 1. (Med.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
2. (Alchemy) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitæ, or the elixir of life.