decasyllabic

[ dek-uh-si-lab-ik ]

adjective

1. having ten syllables:

   a decasyllabic verse.

Other Words From

• nondec·a·syl·labic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of decasyllabic¹

1765–75; deca- + syllabic; compare French décasyllabique

Example Sentences

In versification Hunts aim was to bring back into use the earlier form of the rhymed English decasyllabic or heroic couplet.

From Project Gutenberg

The remaining and much the chief portion of the book consists of half a dozen poems in the rhymed decasyllabic couplet.

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Not only the decasyllabic, but the lyric, in short lines had almost died out of memory, and Wyatt brought it back.

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On one occasion, one of our children, a little boy, had been spending some time over a number of decasyllabic lines.

From Project Gutenberg

This is in the ordinary form of the older, but not oldest, chansons de geste, decasyllabic rhymed tirades.

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