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At times, recitative passages were syllabically crowded, their cadences a bit overburdened.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021

The only effect which the discovery of such impositions produced upon this saturnine personage was, to extort an ejaculation of "Prodigious!" or "Very facetious!" pronounced syllabically, but without moving a muscle of his own countenance.

From Guy Mannering by Scott, Walter, Sir

Greek, French and German are all more expansive, more syllabically copious.

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock

Thus, free, freer, freest, increases syllabically; but ample, ampler, amplest, does not.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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 Symons, Arthur