élocution, n.f., elocution.
éloge, n.m., eulogium, eulogy, panegyric, encomium, praise, commendation. Digne d’—; praiseworthy. Faire soi-même son —; to sound one’s own praises. Faire l’— d’un auteur; to speak in praise of an author. — funèbre; funeral oration.
élogieu-x, -se, adj., full of praise, eulogistic, flattering.
élogiste, n.m.f., (ant.) eulogist, writer of panegyrics.
*éloigné, -e, part., removed, distant, wide, remote, far; absent, foreign. Temps —s; distant times. Cause —e; remote cause. Il est fort — de le croire; he is far from believing it. Se tenir —; to keep away, to stand aloof. D’une manière —e; distantly.
*éloignement (é-loagn-mān), n.m., removal, removing; distance, remoteness; retirement; aversion, dislike; estrangement, unwillingness. On voit Paris dans l’—; Paris is seen in the distance. Avoir de l’— pour le travail; to have an aversion for work.
*éloigner, v.a., to remove, to put away, to send away; to dismiss; to discard; to repudiate; to remove further; to waive; to avert; to banish; to drive away; to put off, to delay, to retard; to alienate, to estrange; to indispose. — un sujet; to waive a subject. — les soupçons; to discard suspicion. — quelqu’un de; to indispose any one (towards). — quelqu’un de son pays; to send any one away from his country. Eloignez de vous ces mauvaises pensées; dismiss such evil thoughts.
s’*éloigner, v.r., to go away, to remove, to recede; to forsake; to withdraw; to ramble; to digress; to swerve; to deviate; to be different, to differ from, to dislike; (paint.) to appear in the distance; to be alienated, to be wanting, to fall off, to fail. Ne vous éloignez pas; don’t go far. S’— de son devoir; to deviate from one’s duty. S’— de son sujet; to digress from one’s subject. Cette opinion s’éloigne de la mienne; that opinion differs from mine.
élongation, n.f., elongation; digression.
élonger, v.a., (nav.) to sheer off, to lay alongside of, to run out a warp.