disyllabic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of disyllabic
Example Sentences
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The distinction is really one between monosyllabic and disyllabic roots.
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The third is mono-rhymed throughout, the lines being disyllabic with licence to extend.
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It must be admitted that the disyllabic words are not wholly constant to a principle.
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What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!
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These words retain the suffix, which in early days was disyllabic, as it sometimes is in Shakespeare, for instance in Portia's Before a friend of this descripti�n Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.
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