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<hw>E*lim"i*nant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The result of eliminating <i>n</i> variables between <i>n</i> homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also <altname>resultant</altname>.</def>

<h1>Eliminate</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lim"i*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eliminated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eliminating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>eliminatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>eliminare</ets>; <ets>e</ets> out + <ets>limen</ets> threshold; prob. akin to <ets>limes</ets> boundary. See <er>Limit</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.</def>

<blockquote><b>Eliminate</b> my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Alg.)</fld> <def>To cause to disappear from an equation; <as>as, to <ex>eliminate</ex> an unknown quantity</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.</def>

<blockquote><b>Eliminate</b> errors that have been gathering and accumulating. <i>Lowth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; <as>as, to <ex>eliminate</ex> an idea or a conclusion</as>.</def> <mark>[Recent, and not well authorized]</mark>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; <as>as, the kidneys <ex>eliminate</ex> urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to <ex>eliminate</ex> poison from the system.</as></def>

<h1>Elimination</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lim`i*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82limination</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of expelling or throwing off</def>; <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Alg.)</fld> <def>Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See <er>Eliminate</er>, <p><b>4.</b>]</def>

<h1>Eliminative</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lim"i*na*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.</def>

<h1>Elinguate</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lin"guate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elinguare</ets>.]</ety> <def>To deprive of the tongue.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Davies (Holy Roode).</i>

<h1>Elinguation</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E`lin*gua"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elinguatio</ets>. See <er>Elinguid</er>.]</ety> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>Punishment by cutting out the tongue.</def>

<h1>Elinguid</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lin"guid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elinguis</ets>, prop., deprived of the tongue; hence, speechless; <ets>e + lingua</ets> tongue.]</ety> <def>Tongue-tied; dumb.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Eliquament</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*liq"ua*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.</def>

<h1>Eliquation</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>El`i*qua"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>eliquatio</ets>, fr. <ets>eliquare</ets> to clarify, strain; <ets>e + liquare</ets> to make liquid, melt.]</ety> <fld>(Metallurgy)</fld> <def>The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.</def>