unelided

[124] Another licence, still more alien from Roman usage, is the retention of a short or unelided syllable at the end of the first penthemimer.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

The unelided form of the word _hu'_ would be _hui_.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

Lastly, a sounded vowel, followed by an unelided 'mute e,' must be at the end of the line.

Esther Jean Baptiste Racine 1669

The reason of this is that elision marks the period of living growth; as soon as the language had become crystallised, each letter had its fixed force, the caprices of common pronunciation no longer influencing it; and although no correct writer places the unelided _m_ before a vowel, yet the great rarity of elision not only of _m_ but of long and even short vowels (except _que_) shows that the main object was to avoid it, if possible.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Ad caelum tendens ardentia lumina frustra, and the strange spondaic unelided line (Aen.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922