E’LIM, the guardian angel of Lebbeus (3 syl.) the apostle.  Lebbeus, the softest and most tender of the twelve, at the death of Jesus “sank under the burden of his grief.”—­Klopstock, The Messiah, iii. (1748).

ELINOR GREY, self-poised daughter of a statesman in Frank Lee Benedict’s novel, My Daughter Elinor (1869).  EL’ION, consort of Beruth, and father of Che.—­Sanchoniathon.

ELIOT (John).  Of the Apostle to the North American Indians, Dr. Cotton Mather writes: 

“He that will write of Eliot must write of charity, or say nothing.  His charity was a star of the first magnitude in the bright constellation of his virtues, and the rays of it were wonderfully various and extensive.”—­Cotton Mather, Magna Christi Americana (1702).

Eliot (George), Marian Evans (or “Mrs. Marian Lewes"), author of Adam Bede (1858), Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), etc.

ELISA, often written ELIZA in English, Dido, queen of Carthage.

  ... nec me meminisse pigebit Elisae,
  Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos reget artus.

  Virgil, Aeneid, iv. 335, 336.

  So to Eliza dawned that cruel day
  Which tore AEneas from her sight away,
  That saw him parting, never to return,
  Herself in funeral flames decreed to burn.

  Falconer, The Shipwreck, iii. 4 (1756).

ELIS’ABAT, a famous surgeon, who attended Queen Madasi’ma in all her solitary wanderings, and was her sole companion.—­Amadis de Gaul (fifteenth century).

ELISABETH OU LES EXILES DE SIBERIE, a tale by Madame Cottin (1773-1807).  The family being exiled for some political offence, Elizabeth walked all the way from Siberia to Russia, to crave pardon of the Czar.  She obtained her prayer, and the family returned.

ELISABETHA (Miss).  “She is not young.  The tall, spare form stiffly erect, the little wisp of hair behind ceremoniously braided and adorned with a high comb, the long, thin hands and the fine network of wrinkles over her pellucid, colorless cheeks, tell this.”  But she is a gentlewoman, with generations of gentlewomen back of her, and lives for Doro, her orphan ward, whom she has taught music.  She loved his father, and for his sake—­and his own—­loves the boy.  She works for him, hoards for him, and is ambitious for him only.  When he grows up and marries a lowborn girl,—­“a Minorcan”—­and fills the old home with rude children, who break the piano-wires, the old aunt slaves for them.  After he dies, a middle-aged man, she does not leave them.

“I saw her last year—­an old woman, but working still.”—­Constance Fennimore Woolson, Southern Sketches (1880).

ELISE (2 syl.), the motherless child of Harpagon the miser.  She was affianced to Valere, by whom she had been “rescued from the waves.”  Valere turns out to be the son of Don Thomas d’Alburci, a wealthy nobleman of Naples.—­Moliere, L’Avare (1667).