Pronunciation: sin-a-lif'-a
Alternate Spelling: Also sp. synalepha, synaloephe, synolephe
Omitting one of two vowels which occur together at the end of one word and the beginning of another. A contraction of neighboring syllables. A kind of metaplasm.
I'll take one; you take th'other. When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course t'illume that part of heaven