Chapter Egotism to Embark of E by Soule's Synonymes

Elegance, n.

1. Grace, beauty, symmetry, propriety.

2. Refinement, polish, politeness, gentility.

Elegant, a.

1. Graceful, beautiful, handsome, fine, symmetrical, classical, tasteful, chaste, neat, well-made, well- proportioned, in good taste.

2. Polished, refined, accomplished, cultivated, polite, genteel, courtly, fashionable.

Elegiac, a. Mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, dirgelike.

Elegy, n.

1. Dirge, lament, epicedium, mournful song, funeral song.

2. Serious, meditative, or melancholy poem.

Element, n.

1. simple body, uncompounded body, ultimate part.

2. Constituent, component, ingredient, constituent principle, component part.

3. Proper state, proper sphere, natural medium, vital air.

4. [In pl.] Rudiments, first steps or principles, outlines, essential parts.

Elementary, a.

1. Simple, uncompounded.

2. Rudimentary, rudimental, primary.

Elench, n. (Log.)

1. Elenchus, refutatory syllogism, syllogism forcing contradiction (upon the oppenent).

2. (Rare.) Sophism, paralogism, fallacy, specious argument.