dissyllable

1 The lines are happy in inspiration and finished in form, having only one possible defect, the use of "heralding" as a dissyllable.

2 Sometimes he repeats the second dissyllable, making six notes in all.

3 It is analytic rather than synthetic; most of its roots are monosyllables or dissyllables, and the order of their arrangement is very similar to that in English.

4 The practice which Shelley follows in this line of making 'heaven' a dissyllable is very frequent with him.

5 I said, completely baffled by this extraordinary dissyllable.

6 "Or your 'Ti-mes' newspaper!" cried another, converting the title of the Thunderer into a strange dissyllable.

7 He seems," says Dennis, "to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony, that is, the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.

8 Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file without one dissyllable betwixt them.

9 Each term thus acquires five distinct meanings, and in fact represents five different words, which were phonetically distinct dissyllables, or even polysyllables in the primitive language.

10 One of the archaic absurdities of legislative practice remaining in Commons is that a single Member has autocratic power to delay progress of particular Bills approaching Committee stage by murmuring or shouting a magic dissyllable.

11 There are twenty-two monosyllables to three of greater length, or rather to the same dissyllable thrice repeated; and that too in common parlance proncounced as a monosyllable.

12 Your, fire, and such words as are vulgarly uttered in two syllables, are used as dissyllables by Shakespeare.

13 He generally concludes his period at the end of the couplet, and closes the couplet with a dissyllable; but he does not like Ovid make it an invariable rule.

14 A poet, of all men, should cherish the liquid consonants, and should resist the tendency of the populace to make trochees of all dissyllables.

15 Points which we might criticise are the repeated use of "civilization" as a word of only four syllables, and the archaic pronunciation of "drown-ed" as a dissyllable.

16 The following dissyllables seem to have formed their genitive like monosyllables, and then suffered a contraction.

17 I think Chaucer sometimes uses iche as a dissyllable; vide his Poems passim.

18 No need for more than that sad dissyllable.

19 Theeäze is here marked as a dissyllable, but although it is sometimes decidedly two syllables, its sounds are not always thus apparent in Somerset enunciation.

20 As the broad sound became disused, to a great extent, about this time, the name was spoken, as well as spelled, as a dissyllable, the vowel having its long sound.