Elocution
the art of correct speaking or reading in public, including the appropriate use of gestures. Great attention was paid by the ancients to this art as a branch of oratory. The rhetors in Greece had schools in which young men were trained in the correct use of the voice. Many of the Romans were sent to Greece to study and afterward there were similar teachers of elocution and oratory in Rome. In modern times, the stage has fostered the study of elocution and special attention has been given to it in the Paris Conservatoire, where the strictest canons of the art have been maintained. Many colleges have established professorships of elocution. Perhaps the most successful teacher of this century was Gustave Delsarte, whose theories and practice worked a revolution both in France and other countries. Notable schools of elocution have been established in this country by Charles Wesley Emerson, Franklin H. Sargent, and others. The list of distinguished elocutionists includes the names of Burbank, Frobisher, Riddle, Riley, Powers, and Mackaye.
ELOHIM (e-lō-hem'), the ordinary name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures.
There is the grammatical anomaly that EL RENO this plural stands as the nominative to a singular verb. This has been held to imply that in the Divine nature there is a certain plurality and a certain unity.
The plural has been called also the plural of majesty. It is generally used of the true God, but Jehovah is deemed by far the more sacred name.
ELOI (ā-lwä'), or ELIGIUS (ē-ly' jius), SAINT, Bishop of Noyon and apostle of Flanders; born in 588. Originally a goldsmith, he became patron of goldsmiths and hammermen. He died in 658.