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English
Etymology
See eloign, elongate.
Verb
elong (third-person singular simple present elongs, present participle elonging, simple past and past participle elonged)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lengthen out; to prolong.
- (transitive, obsolete) To put away; to separate; to keep off.
c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Though this port: and I thy ſeruaunt true”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 53v:By Sees & hilles elonged from thy ſight
References
“elong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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