The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elliptically \El*lip"tic*al*ly\, adv.
In the form of an ellipse.
With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 in the form of an ellipse 2 using ellipsis
Usage examples of "elliptically".
This is what Jesus meant when he spoke elliptically of the 'mustard seed' which, he said, 'would grow into a tree large enough for birds to roost in.
He didn't know how much good speaking elliptically would do him, either.
He didn’t know how much good speaking elliptically would do him, either.
She admitted, elliptically, that she tried to "hustle" Gail Curtiz--validating her dyke submissiveness as good old American fortune hunting.
Dared not speak of them to her father (so upset, distraught, he was making himself sick) but spoke elliptically of them to her mother (who hurried to Man anne as if summoned, so powerful was the connection between them, and the two knelt and prayed together, weeping, sometimes laughing, clutching hands like young sisters, the simplest of prayers Our Father --io art in Heaven hallowed be -my nanje until their cheeks were streaked with tears, the color returned to their faces).
The same microwave radiation that’s ambient in the Food Factory, a flux of a few microwatts of elliptically polarized million-A microwave.
The same microwave radiation that's ambient in the Food Factory, a flux of a few microwatts of elliptically polarized million-A microwave.
The spindizzy screen which completely englobed the flying city was itself invisible, but it would pass only elliptically polarized light, so that it blurred the points which were stars seen from space, and took them down in brilliance about three magnitudes to boot.