Definition of Asyllabic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asyllabic

asundre
asura
asverin
aswarm
asway
aswell
aswim
aswing
aswirl
aswoon
asyla
asylee
asylees
asyllabic (current term)
asylum
asylum seeker
asylum seekers
asylumlike
asylums
asymbiosis
asymbolia
asymmetral
asymmetric
asymmetric bars
asymmetric centre
asymmetric centres
asymmetric cryptography
asymmetric disulfide

Literary usage of Asyllabic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A grammar of the Hebrew language: Comprised in a Series of Lectures Compiled by Samuel Lee (1832)
"We can readily perceive, that, upon any asyllabic augment being ... If, then, we attach the asyllabic augment DV, which is the mark of the plural number ..."

2. A Grammatical Analysis of Selections from the Hebrew Scriptures: With an by Isaac Nordheimer, William Wadden Turner (1838)
"... comp. of the noun "IS side from the 9s root "ЛS (§ 524) and the asyllabic pron. suff. n- , on the reception of which the third radical is restored by ..."

3. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language by George Bush (1839)
"As to the effect of such accession, it is obvious that upon any asyllabic augment being postfixed to a word, the terminating consonant of such word must be ..."

4. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language, Comprised in a Series of Lectures by Samuel Lee (1827)
"... and, that when the affixes are found both in the syllabic, and asyllabic, forms, the syllabic must be taken in these cases: as, ..."

5. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... reference to the octosyllabic—that, so to speak, the old asyllabic and ametric versicle was sounding in one ear and the new tight couplet in the other. ..."

6. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"... and it is likely that they were originally asyllabic variants of the vowels /i/ and /u/.21 There is some evidence that [w] could be considered to be in ..."

7. Kos Between Hellenism and Rome: Studies on the Political, Institutional and by Kostas Buraselis (2000)
"As Segre notes, at the end of the lines the words are divided in an often "asyllabic" way. The coarse writing style very probably completes the picture of ..."

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