of Syllabicate

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., /275.

Same as Syllabication.

of Syllabify

of Syllabify

To form or divide into syllables.

The expressing of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.

One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.

To syllabify.

An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reenforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate impulses. See Guide to Pronunciation, /275.

In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language.

A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.

To pronounce the syllables of; to utter; to articulate.

Same as Syllabub.

of Syllabus

of Syllabus

A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.

Alt. of Sylleptical

Of or pertaining to a syllepsis; containing syllepsis.

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Syllidae.

The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration

Alt. of Syllogistical

Of or pertaining to a syllogism; consisting of a syllogism, or of the form of reasoning by syllogisms; as, syllogistic arguments or reasoning.

In a syllogistic manner.

A reasoning by syllogisms.

of Syllogize

of Syllogize