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elide
verb (used with object)
to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.
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Elide comes straight from the Latin verb 脓濒墨诲别谤别 鈥渢o strike out, crush, smash,鈥� a compound of the preposition and prefix 脓, 脓-, a variant of ex, ex-, here indicating deprivation or loss, and the combining form –濒墨诲别谤别, from laedere 鈥渢o wound, injure, damage.鈥� 膾濒墨诲别谤别 and elide both have the legal sense 鈥渢o nullify, invalidate,鈥� and the grammatical or prosodic sense 鈥渢o omit a vowel or syllable in pronunciation,鈥� as formerly in English th鈥檈mbattled plain, and in French 濒鈥檋辞尘尘别, or Italian 濒鈥檜辞尘辞. Laedere has no known etymology. Elide entered English in the 16th century.
how is elide used?
These videos slyly elide the long hours that lie between seeing how something is done and knowing how to do it.
They confused her, made her angry, as though the whole middle section of her life鈥攖he part where she was supposed to grow to adulthood, bear children, be a young mother, and watch her children grow to adulthood鈥攈ad simply been elided.
adventitious
adjective
associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic.
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Adventitious comes from the Medieval Latin adjective 补诲惫别苍迟墨迟颈耻蝉, from Latin 补诲惫别苍迟墨肠颈耻蝉 鈥渃oming from without, from abroad, foreign, external, made or happening by chance, casual.鈥� 础诲惫别苍迟墨肠颈耻蝉 is a derivative of the verb 补诲惫别苍墨谤别 鈥渢o come to, arrive at, reach鈥� (formed from the preposition and prefix ad, ad– 鈥渢o, toward鈥� and the simple verb 惫别苍墨谤别 鈥渢o come, be on the way, approach鈥�) and the suffix –墨肠颈耻蝉, used for forming adjectives from the past participle stems of verbs (here, advent– from adventum). The zoological or botanical sense 鈥渁ppearing in an abnormal or unusual position or place, as a root鈥� dates from the second half of the 17th century. Adventitious dates from the early 17th century.
how is adventitious used?
It is not founded on organic strength, the delicate, ennobling mark of a good endowment, of sound blood and a sound character, but is in a curious way something adventitious, accidental, perhaps even usurped or stolen.
This is exhausting, of course, but far less so than the tenor of a normal museum, which groups works by adventitious categories of period and style.
banalize
verb (used with object)
to render or make devoid of freshness or originality;听迟谤颈惫颈补濒颈锄别: Television has often been accused of banalizing even the most serious subjects.
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Banalize 鈥渢o render or make banal, trivialize鈥� dates only from the mid-20th century. Banalize is a derivative of the adjective banal 鈥渓acking freshness or originality, trite, hackneyed.鈥� Banal comes from Old French banal, banel 鈥渃ommunal, open to the public,鈥� from ban 鈥減ublic proclamation, edict, (in ecclesiastical usage) an official notice of an intended marriage, given three times in the parish church of each of the betrothed,鈥� usually used in the plural banns or bans. In secular life, ban in feudal times meant 鈥渁 summons from a lord or sovereign to a vassal to perform military service.鈥� Any American male of a certain age who has ever received a letter personally addressed to him from The President of the United States, beginning with 鈥淕reeting:鈥� would consider a ban like that as anything but banal.
how is banalize used?
Once the human tragedy has been completed, it gets turned over to the journalists to banalize into entertainment.
… these poets suffer by living in an anti-Romantic hollow, when the lyric occasion is no longer a noble and high thing, (let alone a public thing) but has been banalized and domesticated.