/ · 1894 Brewer’s · E · Elissa (deficiency or parsimony; Greek, ellipsis)
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Step-sister of Mediʹna and Perisʹsa, but they could never agree upon any subject. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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