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Syllabic

adjective

Of or relating to syllables. "Syllabic characters each represent a syllable"

Consisting of or using a syllabary.

(of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities.

Consisting of a syllable or syllables.

(of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable.

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... and abroad. When he decided, on his return from abroad in 1730, to adopt literature as a profession, the times were extremely unpropitious. He had, long before, during his student days in Moscow, written syllabic verses, an elegy on the death of Peter the Great, and a couple of dramas, which were acted by his fellow-students. In 1732 he became the court poet, or laureate and panegyrist, and wrote, to the ...

— A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections • Isabel Florence Hapgood

... confessor, Mansuete, about procuring a priest, and the priest was smuggled into the king's room by the Duchess and Chiffinch.[98] Now the letters are a verbal acrostic of Pere Mansuete a Cordelier Friar, and a syllabic acrostic of PortsMouth and ChifFinch. This is a singular coincidence. Macaulay adopted the first interpretation, preferring it to the second, which I brought before him as the conjecture of a near relative of my own. But Mansuete is not mentioned in his narrative: it ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

Words linked to "Syllabic" : syllabicity, syllabled, syllable, accentual, nonsyllabic, quantitative, syllabary