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Ecthlipsis

Ecthlipsis \Ec*thlip"sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to squeeze out.]

  1. The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

  2. (Lat. Pros.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel. [1913 Webster] ||

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ecthlipsis

n. 1 (context linguistics Latin prosody English) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel. 2 (context linguistics Latin prosody English) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.