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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient prosody: Elision of a vowel ending one line before a vowel beginning the next; synalœphe of the final vowel of a verse with the initial vowel of the verse succeeding it.
- noun Union of two vowels in one syllable; synæresis.
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