ELOQUENCY.
;
with his doulce & sugred eloquency. 1546 LANGLEY Pol.
I'erg. DC Invent. \. ix. 19 a, The latin long is not so fyt
to receiue the ornamentes of Eloquencie as the Greke tong
is.
1683 CAVE Ecclesiastici App. 27 The wisdom, clearness,
and eloquency of his discourses.
(e-l^kwent), a. [a. Fr. Eloquent, ad
Eloquent
L. eloquent-cm
eloqiti to
f.
pr. pple.,
i
Of persons
speak out.]
Possessing or exercising the power
of fluent, forcible, and appropriate expression.
1393 GOWER Conf. II. 288 In his speche Of wordes he was
eloquent.
14)80 CAXTON Chron. Eng. ccxxxvii. 261 A wyse
knyst and a trewe and an eloquent man. 1586 T. B. La
Primand. Fr, Acad. 11589)249 The eloquentest orator in
the world. 1651 HOBBES Leviath. \. xi. 49 Eloquent speakers
are enclined to Ambition, a 1714 BuRNErOaw Titt(\j(&)
1.
:
1.
eloquentest man of that time.
1874 MORLEY
173
Compromise (1886) 48 The school of which M. Renan is the
The
I.
most eloquent representative.
b. transf. and fig.
1599 SHAKS. Hen. r, in.vii. 37 Turne the Sands into eloquent tongues. 1781 GIBBON Ded. <$ F. III. Ixx. 774 His pen
was not less eloquent than his tongue. 1814 S. ROGERS
Jacguel. \. 81 Her dark eyes how eloquent i86 TKOLLOPE
Orley F. xxxix, There is a silence which may be more eloquent than the sounds which it follows.
2. Of utterances or style
Characterized by for!
:
and appropriate expression.
GOWER Conf. III. 85 Rhetorique, whose facounde
cible
1393
Above all other is eloquent. 1509 HAWES/'OJ/. Pleas, xvui.
Your payne and wordes eloquent. "1593 H. SMITH
ll'ks. 11866-71 ' 79 1
tne godly it seemeth the wisest, and
xxi,
eloquentest, and sweetest, and easie-t book of all others.
1627 DOSNK St-rni. 49 As powerfull as the Eloquentest
Sermon. 1806 Med. Jrnl. XV. 8 r The author of this eloquent little pamphlet. 1841 LANE Arab. Nts. 1.105 Wellshaped, and of eloquent speech.
f 3. humorously. That inspires eloquence.
1599 PoRTKR.-lw^ry Worn, Abined. 11841)22
most eloquenst ale in all the world.
Eloquential
(el<*kwe'nfal
eloqitenti-a ELOQUENCE
quence rhetorical.
+
You have
rare.
a.
,
[f.
the
L.
Pertaining to elo-
-AL.]
Poet.
Wks.
1721 III. 351 Orators,
who with Eloquential Might, Black'ned bright Day, to guild
infernal Night.
BAILEY
Ftstns
led. 3*73/2, I Was
1839-48
odd story. 1867
waiting for an eloquential pause In this
LD. STRANGFORD Sel, Writings II. 54 Eloquential gush.
Ibid. 308 In his eloquential aspect.
.
.
e'hflcwentli), adv.
[f.
In an eloquent manner.
Als
1471 RIPLFV Comp. Alch. v. xxiv. inAshm. (1652)154
Eloquently
+ -LY
2.]
.
by them eloquently in Greek. 1850 W. IRVING Goldsm. i.
20 Pictures, rural and domestic
appeal so eloquently to
.
.
the fancy.
1
b. humorously.
1853 BRIMLEY Ess. 276 Eloquently drunk.
a-
eloquence + -OUH.]
,
[f.
[f.
L. eloqui-um
Eloquent.
1599 NASHK Lent. Stufff Harl. Misc. VI. 162 Eloquious noarie beard, father Nestor, you were one of them. 1607
HEYWOOD Fayre Mayde E.rckangeVf\is> t 1874 II, 54 Heer's
a most eloquious aire for the memory.
tElo'zable,
*t'slosabte
rare~
[as if a. OF.
Amenable to flattery.
l
Obs.
a.
.
esloser to praise.]
f.
t
l'in<t. in Harl. Misc. I. 61 The execuwould reach them
who in the time of
seems found the prince more elozable.
1537 Madiui-r-ci't.
tion of the laws
Tarquin
it
.
.
t Elp. Obs. Also yip, 3 alp. [shortened form
of OE. elpend, ad. L. elephant -cm.\ = ELKPHANT.
i
Hence Alpes bon,
ciooo Ags.
Wr.-Wiilcker 320 Elefans,
yip.
1220 Bestiary 604 Elpes arn in Inde riche, on bodi borhc
<
646 Danne cumed 8is elp unride. c 13^5
St. Kathtrine (Auchinl. MS.) 282 in Horstmann Alteng.
Mir
II.
Leg.
248
body white as alpes bon.
berges
ilike.
ll-id.
Elpasolite
Min.
^clpac'sJlait).
[f.
El Paso
Cocolo, where first found.] A fluoride of potassium,
aluminium, and sodium, occurring in pachnolitc,
in
small colourless nodules.
1885
name
I'.
.V.
(,W.
elpasolitc for
.S;/r:'.
III.
275
We wish
to propose the
it.
El pi,
var. of ONELEPY a. Obs. sole, single.
HOD Trin. Coll. flow. 258 Ihesu crist, bin elpi sune.
1225 Ancr. A'. 324 pu wascnest pine honden in one elpi
dele twics o8er brics.
{
ti
tElpi'StiC,^.
Obs.
rare~
l
.
[ad.Gr. ^Aio'Tt*tij,
The distinctive epithet of a
t\itt((tv to hope.]
sect of Greek philosophers (see quot.).
1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. \. (1589) a86 The
Klpistickc Philosophers affirmed, that nothing better maintained and preserved the life of man, than Hope.
f.
Elrage, -aige, -ich, -ische, -itch,
1
var.
ff.
EL-
HUTCH.
f
m
suffix,
t
-isljo,
Epinal Glossary gyrdisl, -Us} girdle, byrgcls (BuUIELS) tomb, grxfels quarry, riecels (REKEL8) inThe few words of this type
cense, rxdels KIDDLE.
that have survived into mod. English have lost
their final s, owing to the original forms having
been mistaken for plurals: see -LE.
Else els adv. Forms: 1-6 elles, (2 belles,
,
Orm,
ellesa, 3-4 ? el(le, 4 eles), 4 ellez, 4-5 ellus,
ellis, -ys, (4 hellis
4-7 ells, els, 6- else.
4-6
[OE.
,
= OHO.
fffes
adverbial
obs.
ff.
ELDER
elles,
OSw.
alles,
aljes
Sw.
elr^-kaitV
Min.
[f.
of an island in the Caribbean Sea
E/ Roque, name
:
see -ITE.]
A
If
it
do so
will prefer to
be not
my business,
in
somebody else's
nobody else's.
it is
mentioned in i = in (some, any, what, etc.)
other manner, place, or time *.
c 1300 ORMIN 8471 Seldenn owwhaer elless. rx449 PECOCK
Repr. vii. 32 Groundid sumwhere ellis. 1512 Act 4 Hen.
*
:
i.
n Wher he then shalbe most conversaunte
'///, c. 19.
.& no wher elles. 1548 UDALL Erasm. Par, Pref. 2 Are
than and neuer els. 1837 POLLOK Course T. in, Sinks
where could he else? to endless woe. 1878 MORLEY Crit.
Misc. Sen i. 199 Here more than anywhere else.
J* 3. a. In a different manner,
by other means. Obs.
Bfmvulf 2^20 >Grj Gif ic wiste hu wi5 Sam aglaecean elles
ic meahte ?ylpe wi5 gripan. c IOOO.-KLFRIC Gram.
38 A liter,
elles.
c 1200 ORMIN Ded. 107 He ne ma
nohht elles.-. Onn
EnngHsh writtenn rihhtte word. 1393 LANGL. /*. PL C. ir.
174 PC same mesure bat }e meteb amys ober ellys. 1471
RIPLEY Comp. Alch. v. in Ashm. 148 For Bodies ells may
I
.
not be alterat naturally.
t b. In another direction
=
elsewhither.
1320 Sir Tristr. 2139 Of lond ichil elles fare. 1591 SHAKS.
Gent. iv. ii. 125 Since the substance of your perfect
selfe is else deuoted, I am but a shadow.
t C. At another time, or at other times. Hence,
senses 3-5 are prob. strictly adverbial genitives.]
1.
synonym of other, used in connexion
MAINDEV.
use
:
A
with
pronouns, or with words or
phrases equivalent to any of these, such as anything,
also with
nothing, everything, anybody, some one
imlef., rel.,or interrog.
;
a great
mod.
language else follows the pronominal word or
In this use else, like its synonym other,
phrase.;
admits contextually of two different interpretaall
much,
absol.),
tions
e.g.
in addition
:
'
little,
something
else
deal.
may mean
(In
'
something
to what is mentioned, or ' something
1
as an alternative or a substitute
In the former
.
case else may be replaced by besides, further, more
in the latter case it may sometimes be rendered by
Often
di/erent, insteaf, with that exception, etc.
(like other} followed by but (see BUT 5 b.) or than,
:
In
OE.
elles, as thus used, admits of being construed, in
its etymology, as a neut. adj. in gen. case ;
diviht elles (augnt else* is lit. 'aught of other', cf.
'
dit'itht gtides (Metr. Boetk. xxv. 59) lit. anything of good ;
also Lat. Quid no7.'i, amari aliquid. Fr, quelqitechose de
bon. The extension of this construction seen in phrases like
anyone else, ivho else, etc., and in the examples under i b,
at blestf ; rothl
may be compared with Fr. il riy
e. g.
'
hotnmcs
afersonne
mort, etc. It is however probable that
even in OE. the consciousness of the genitival character of
else was already obscured
and from the standpoint of mod.
usage, it is hard to say whether the word should be reas
an
in
concord
with the words that from the
garded
adj.
point of view of historical grammar would be said to
or
whether
it
should
be classed as an adverb.
govern it,
a 1000 Seafarer iGr.i 46 Ne bib him to hearpan hyge
ne ymbe owiht elles nefne, etc. c 1200 OKMIN 9304 Nohht
elless ne nohht mare pann bait tatt ?uw iss sett, c 1250 Gen.
a 1300
ff KJC. 4006 Alle elles he driuen in deades weph.
Cursor M. 13471 (Cott.t J>is he said
To fand him and nathing elles. c 1340 (Jaw, ty Gr. A'ttt. 1550 For to haf wonnen hym to wo^e, what-so scho bo$t ellez. 1340 HAMPOLE
Pr. Consc. 1072 pe world, .es noght elles, Bot^e maners of
trois
tie
'
*
. .
HKRVET
bat bar-in dwelles.
153*
Hoitseh. (1768) 55 Shall he nede
COVERDALE
Zff>h.
\\.
15,
I
tr.
Xenophoni
any thynge elles.
am, and there is els none.
1535
1662
Orif. Sacr. Ded 6 Were there nothing else to
Religion to the minds of men. a 1677 BARROW
Scrtn. Wks. 1716 II. 38 What do they else, but scrape and
scramble, .for these things ? 1705 ADDISON Italy Pref, Antiquities that no Body else has spoken of.
1642 Ti \\\s. IN
Audley Court, Emilia, fairer than all else but thou, For thou
art fairer than all else that is. 1870 STAINI H Music <>/ / /'//<
2 Singing is little else than a highly l>eautiCul speaking.
b. In the same sense, referring to a sb., chiefly
STILI.INGFL.
commend
preceded by an adj. correlative with one of the pronouns, etc. mentioned in i.
Formerly common
now only poet, or arch.
Modern usage permits us to viy Have you seen anybody
else?' 'have you read anything else V because body and
iking have lost ihcir substantival force but not Have you
srcn .my soldier else?' 'have you read any book else?'
;
'
;
39 Hwylc beren m;emle he bonne elles
buton hcofona rice? 1340 70 .f//-.r. v nind. 1017 |>o bostful dedeus. .Schal ^ou procre to pryde & to no profit ellus.
1538 BALE God's Promises
Dodsley (1780) I. 25 The adders ded stynge other wycked persones els In wonderful
971
Illickl. Jft'tn.
m
I
mimbre. 1577 VAtmoOLUBI Luther on Ep. Gal. 93 Sharpe
chidings and bitter wordcs are as necessary . . as any other
vertue els. 1613 Pi'Kt HAS / '//v'., /Virr. /W/au864) 19 Hee
is Lord of all nor hath any else possession of any thing, but
at the will of the King.
1615 CHAPMAN Odyss. xvn. 186
By force She kept his person from all else recourse. 1801
WORDSWORTH Airey-Fonf I'alley Wks. VI. 33 Where an
things else are stilf and motionless.
18*7 POI.LOK Course
T. x, This silence. .Was now forgot, and every silence cUe.
t C. elliptically.
Something, anything else
otherwise '. Obs.
1525 Tale of the Basyn 3 in Ha?l. K. P. P. III. 44 Summe
byn trew and sum byn ellis.
1371 in W. H. Turner
Rec. Oxford 339 Noe freman of the Cytie, beyng baker or
els.
1505 SHAKS. John n. i. 276 Bastards, and else.
d. Forming a quasi-compound sb. with inflected
;
'
any
$b.\
Mod.
2. Subjoined to one of the advbs. or adverbial
expressions correlative with the pronouns, etc.
of the genit. case neuter
eljest\
= Goth, aljis OTeut. *atjeso) of OTeut. *aljo(
other (whence OE. /- in compounds : see EI.ELENDISH) = L. alius.
Senses i and 2 appear to arise from phrases in which the
word retained its original force as an adj. used absol. ;
genitive
Eiren, elren,
Elroquite
-els, repr. OTeat. -islo-z,
m, forming instrumental sbs. or verbal
abstracts, chiefly from vbs. in OTeut. -Jan. The
suffix was very common in OE., as in
^yrdels (in
-els,
-islo
'
ivory.
in
Ctfass.
41 Elroquite. .an apple green
OE.
men
1775 in ASH.
Obs. rare.
17*7-31 in BAILEY IT
iii.
to grey, massive substance.
in
misconduct himself
parish.
chromium.
1882 DANA Min. App.
. .
Eloquentness (e-wkwfatnii). rareELOQUKHT + omB.] = ELOQTENCE 3.
t ElO'quioUB,
iron, coloured green by
;
How
ASCHAM Siholew.
(Arb.) 140
eloquently
they clape. 1570
Carolus Sigonius hath written of late, both learnedlie and
HOBBF.S
Lfriath.
in.
xxxiii.
eloquentlie.
1651
204 Written
.
aluminium and
silicate of
accordance with
;
KKS Hymnotheo
a 1711
ELSEWHEH.
96
t 6. An alleged technical term denoting a com~
pany of lawyers. Obs. rare *.
1486 Bk. St. Albany F vij a, An Eloquens of laweyeris.
t E'loqnency. Obs. rare. [f. as prec. see
ELOQUENCE 3.
-ENCY.]
1545 TH. RAVNALD Woman* booke B 8 Witty Mercury
:
Somebody (anybody everybody, some out,
Very common colloq.
Diary 9 Dec., My. .pleasure was just the same
t
one, every one} else's.
1668 I'KI-VS
yesterday, and no more, nor anybody else's a Unit us.
1860 Sat. Rev. IX. 12/1 A clergyman who is inclined to
:is
;
Obs.
c
Two
Already, formerly. Obs. exc.
dial.
1393 LANGL. P. PI. C. i. 89 In lentene, and elles. c 1400
xi. 125 On the Saturday, hyt renneth faste; and
alle the Wooke elles, hyt stondeth stylle.
1513 DOUGLAS
sKafis xi. vi. 136 Contrar hys kene dartis ellis stand haue
we - Z S7 MONTCOMERIE Cherrie fy Sloe 1491 Did he not
?
els, quoo he, consent the cherrie for to
1691 RAY
pow
C. Words 24, 1 have done that else, i>. already. Mod. Sc.
Have you come back else ?
4. In another case, under other circumstances ;
N.
otherwise, on any other supposition
if not.
Matt- vi. i Elles naebbe 50 mede mid
Ags. Gosp.
on
heofenum
ys.
^1175 Lamb. Horn.
b^e
c izytGen.
his rixlunge ne fest ne lonsum.
$ Ex. 3072 Beter 1st laten hem vt-pharen, Al sal egipte elles
for-faren.
1297 R. GLOUC. (1724) 451 El [r. r. elles] yt were
amys. (-1400 MAVNDHV. xxii. 241 And elle he rylt in a
Charett with 4 Wheles. 1506 SPENSER F. Q. \. \. 19 Strangle
her, els she sure will strangle thee.
1642 ROGERS Naatnan
vomited them out else. 1765
89 The land certainly had
H. WALPOLE Otrantov. (1798' 80 It comes to warn your
highness
why should it appear to me else? 1837 J. H.
NKWMAN Par. Serm. ied. 3) I. v. 115 Else how should any
one be saved? 1873 BROWNING Red Cott. Night-C. 115
boughs above, Darken, deform the path, else sun would
r
;
1000
eowrum I-aeder
in Elles ne biS
.
.
;
streak.
b. preceded by or.
a 1300 Cursor M. 9715 Or
ells
A
agh dom be cald
a-gain.
Hit. P. A. 723 Bot he com byder ry? 1 as a
1325 E. E.
chylde, Obcr ellez neuer more com ber-inne. c 1394 P. PI.
Crede 480 Ob< rs elles Satan him-self sente hem fro hell.
c 1440 Generydes 2733 The helm was sure, or ellys he had
hym slayn. 1555 Tract in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App.
xfiv. 126 Make your hearts pure or els your prayers are
sin.
1592 SHAKS. I'en. <fr Ad. 208 Speak fair words, or else
be mute. 1659 HAMMOND On Ps. xlviii. 13 Annot. 349 Or
els it will be impossible to number them exactly.
iSso
KFATS St. Agnes xii. Follow me, child, or else these stones
Mines
will be thy bier.
RAYMOND
Statist.
fy
1872
Mining
323 The tunnel should be owned by the mines . . or else it
should be constructed upon some agreement.
(-
c.
idiomatically.
=
'
If
not believed'.
it is
Now
rare or dial.
1590 GRKKSK Orl. Fur. (1599) 28, I am Orgalio, Aske all
these people else.
1595 SHAKS. John iv. i. 108 The fire is
dead with griefe, See else your selfe. 1741 RICHARDSON
Pamela, II. 108 Shew her else, Madam.
1809 PARKINS
Cttlptfiper's Eng. Physic. Enl. 245 St. Peter being the
greater Apostle, ask the Pope else.
d. qualifying an adj. rhetorical.
1800 24 CAMPBELL Ode Bums iii, Love ..The choicest
sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distill'd. 1839 >i
Oi'iNCKY Recoil. Lakes Wks. II. 222 Carrying the reader
fluently along the else monotonous recurrences. 1871 HAWTHORNK .SV//- Felton (18791 '9 1 To wander with her through
I
places else so desolate.
If only, provided that, so long
Obs.
(Cf. (ler. anders in same sense.)
reches ful lyttel
c 13*5 E. E. Aliit. P. B. 466 pe rauen
How alte fode* ber fare, elle* he fynde mete, f 1340 Caw.
to dele hym an
me
be
dom
Ellez
bou
h'ttt.
wyl di^t
<V Gr.
215
f 5. quasi-ow/.
as.
. .
ober.
<-i375-S.. /.-. S.iints, St.
our ^aweoure
t
f>e will
Elsehow,
of be
(/?-.
Paulm
mane knawyne
003 Ellis bat
till
be.
Obs. exc. dial.
[f.
ELSE +
How.
In this and the following compounds of e Ise (exc. ELSEWISE) the stress is variable.]
In some, or any, other way.
how.
t Elsewhat, pron. Obs.
Something or anything else.
800 K. /KLKRKH Rvda iv. iii.
[f.
ELSE + WHAT.]
(Smithi 569 Gif he zt
in
leornunge szt, obbe elles hwart dyde. a 1240 I.o/song
Coft. Honi. 215 Of bet n-ie of hclles hwat iwurfte Jri wille
elsor
here
a
A
Icxamier
euer.
4556 Quebir b_ai
1400-50
saule.
1586 SIDNEY Son*. 11622* 489
quat it hurtis ay he
For why should I, whom free choise slaue doth make, Elsewhat in face, then in myfancie beare? 1602 WARNER Alb.
worth.
A'ntr. Ixxiii. 300 With jewels, .and else-what of great
ELSE + WHEN.]
adv. Obs.
t
[f.
At rmother time, at other times.
(
Elsewhen,
to
/". A" \\'ilh 1882) 43 Or ellys whan mian hem le-^t
remeve bens. 1563
A. 4- / (1641* III. 795 Her husband willed her to go to the church, which she both then
1418
I
OM
-1