The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. It includes botany and zoology. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms.
For a meaning of the Hebrew name Eli, NOBSE Study Bible Name List takes the ×¢× -part to come from ×¢×× ('ala), meaning to ascend. The ×, NOBSE seems to explain as an adjective-maker but also as a remnant of ××. Hence NOBSE reads  High that is God Is High .
Definition of elision. 1  1a : the use of a speech form that lacks a final or initial sound which a variant speech form has (as 's instead of is in there's)b : the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable in a verse to achieve a uniform metrical pattern. 2  2 : the act or an instance of omitting something : omission.