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Definition of Alliterates
1. alliterate [v] - See also: alliterate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alliterates
Literary usage of Alliterates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judith: Studies in Metre, Language and Style, with a View to Determining the by Thomas Gregory Foster (1892)
"29 'sn' alliterates with 's + vowel'. In dealing with 'sc' as with V and 'g',
... 313 as rime-combination, but otherwise 'sn' alliterates with s -f ..."
2. Félire Húi Gormáin: The Martyrology of Gorman, Edited from a Manuscript in by Gorman (1895)
"16. sc alliterates with s (and sc): Scolastica, Sillan, Feb. 10. Seme, Scandal,
June 27—a ... 31. sn alliterates with s (and sn): s'mne j«adud, Feb. ..."
3. Chapters on Alliterative Verse: Dissertation, 1892 by John Lawrence (1893)
"As a principal verb have occasionally alliterates in the classical ... 5), and
as an auxiliary never alliterates in the best period, as far as I know. ..."
4. Quellen und Forschungen zur sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker (1892)
"29 'su' alliterates with 's + vowel'. In dealing with 'sc' as with ... 313 as
rime-combination, but otherwise 'an' alliterates with s +• vowel. ..."
5. The Versification of King Horn by Henry Skinner West (1907)
"(6) The first non-rime stress alliterates with the second rime stress—formula
... stresses the first non-riming stress alliterates—formula a • aR : x • aR. ..."
6. Alliteration in the Chanson de Roland and in the Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis by Alexander Haggerty Krappe (1921)
"The prefix does not count in cases where the root syllable alliterates with
another word or root syllable, and where it is likely to have been clearly ..."
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