We purpose remedying the defect, supplying the necessary criticism, and filling up the hiatus.

But things have changed since then, and a mile of houses, stretching northward, and westward, and eastward now fills up the ancient hiatus.

Other combinations of three vowels may be analyzed in a similar way, as may also combinations of more than three vowels, e.g. creíais, etc. B. SYNALEPHA Between the contiguous vowels of separate words there may occur synalepha (which corresponds to diphthongization within a word), or hiatus (which is similar to diaeresis within a word).

Synalepha is possible with the other combinations, but hiatus is preferable even with the above combinations, in a syllable on which the rhythmical accent falls (see under Rhythmic Accent).

(3) and (4) might well be considered as cases of hiatus.

HIATUS Hiatus is most frequently found between words having a close syntactical relation, particularly if the initial vowel of the second word is in a constituent syllable.

HIATUS Hiatus is most frequently found between words having a close syntactical relation, particularly if the initial vowel of the second word is in a constituent syllable.

Hiatus is, however, sometimes observed in this phrase. Ex.

When both vowels are accented hiatus is more common than synalepha, even though there is no close syntactical relation, although the vowels may be joined by synalepha if they do not come in a constituent syllable.

[Hiatus.] Ex. ¿Sabes tú^á dónde va?

Note the hiatus in the 6th verse.

Notice the hiatus in the 4th and 5th verses.

Notice the hiatus in the 1st, 3d, and 4th verses.

Notice the hiatus in the 3d verse of the 4th stanza and in the 1st verse of the 6th stanza.

Notice the esdrújulo terminating the 5th verse, and the hiatus in the 19th verse.

Notice the esdrújulo ending the 3d verse and the hiatus in the 5th verse.

It may seem fantastic to conceive that any dramatist could blunder so grossly; but there are not a few plays in which we observe a scarcely less glaring hiatus.

But on such occasions as these Mrs. Mesurier grew positively great; and the manner in which she contrived to "turn the conversation," and smooth over the terrible hiatus, was a feat that admits of no worthy description.

"The Government is confident that the foregoing general ruling will enable junior and inexperienced officers, temporarily employed on famine duty, to classify appropriately and with facility as denticulate or edentulous all individuals afflicted with dental hiatus, mal-conformation and labefaction, without further reference to higher authority.

The utility and amusement of travelling, are also considered in this essay, and hints thrown out for the improvement of barren and disagreeable country, by the observation of lights and shadows, tints of the season, distances, &c., with a recommendation to supply, if possible, every hiatus of nature, by the imagination of all that is needed to render her perfectly picturesque.

We will not ask any Chronique Scandaleuse, of which there are plenty, to supply any hiatus in the dramatis personae of her life.

But in the English termination ous, or in the Latin us, it is sharp; as joyous, vigorous, hiatus.

The hiatus in the last line was at first a little trying, but I have learned to love it; not in Baudelaire nor even in Poe is there more beautiful poetry to be found.

You will scarcely find anywhere a false quantity or a hiatus.

Thus, for example, in reading Isaiah uncritically we pass from the fragment of history that forms our thirty-ninth chapter, to the magnificent strain of impassioned imagination which opens with the fortieth chapter, as though there were no hiatus; and we proceed straight through this latter section of the book, taking it all as written in the reign of Hezekiah, that is, in the latter part of the eighth century before Christ.