syllabic
adjective
of or relating to syllables or the division of a word into syllables
syllabically
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a word derived from
syllabic.
Example Sentences
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At times, recitative passages were syllabically crowded, their cadences a bit overburdened.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
Hypothetical," syllabically repeated Bessie Keith; "did you teach him that word, Miss Curtis?
From Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge
And these symbolic pictures were usually attached to the words they represented, even when the latter had come to be syllabically and alphabetically spelt.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Here the verse is reduced to its barest constituents; every line is, syllabically as well as accentually, of equal length; and the lines run in pairs, without one double rhyme throughout.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
This was always five lines in length, constructed syllabically 5, 7, 5, 7, 7, or thirty-one syllables in all.
From Japanese Prints by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop
