Definition of Syllabications

1. syllabication [n] - See also: syllabication

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllabications

syllabic
syllabic abbreviation
syllabic abbreviations
syllabic break
syllabic breaks
syllabic rhyme
syllabic rhymes
syllabic script
syllabical
syllabically
syllabicate
syllabicated
syllabicates
syllabicating
syllabication
syllabications (current term)
syllabicities
syllabicity
syllabics
syllabificate
syllabificated
syllabificating
syllabification
syllabifications
syllabified
syllabifies
syllabify
syllabifying
syllabise
syllabism

Literary usage of Syllabications

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

1. Pedagogical Articles: Linen-measurer by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener (1904)
"... the azes and syllabications, and one-third could read. After two weeks the peasants expressed their universal dissatisfaction with the school. ..."

2. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... opened a school in a village, where out of forty pupils one-half had been instructed according to the azes and syllabications, and one-third could read. ..."

3. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... opened a school in a village, where out of forty pupils one-half had been instructed according to the azes and syllabications, and one-third could read. ..."

4. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1860)
"Some reduplications, in both Greek and Latin, manifest clearly a simple onomato-poetic origin, as mere syllabications, in human speech, of repetitious ..."

5. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence. With Maps by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1865)
"... language to be regarded, as having been in its first state a mere mass of word- germs : a huge pile of fortuitous, unconnected, crude syllabications? ..."

6. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"These, it was urged, were merely the natural syllabications common to infant lips, and, being the first sounds of which their imperfect Utterance was ..."

7. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"An obscure idea of the principles of syllabications just laid down, and the contradiction to them perceived in this exception, has made most of our ..."

8. Pedagogical Articles: Linen-measurer by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Wiener (1904)
"... the azes and syllabications, and one-third could read. After two weeks the peasants expressed their universal dissatisfaction with the school. ..."

9. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... opened a school in a village, where out of forty pupils one-half had been instructed according to the azes and syllabications, and one-third could read. ..."

10. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... opened a school in a village, where out of forty pupils one-half had been instructed according to the azes and syllabications, and one-third could read. ..."

11. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1860)
"Some reduplications, in both Greek and Latin, manifest clearly a simple onomato-poetic origin, as mere syllabications, in human speech, of repetitious ..."

12. Modern Philology: Its Discoveries, History, and Influence. With Maps by Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1865)
"... language to be regarded, as having been in its first state a mere mass of word- germs : a huge pile of fortuitous, unconnected, crude syllabications? ..."

13. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"These, it was urged, were merely the natural syllabications common to infant lips, and, being the first sounds of which their imperfect Utterance was ..."

14. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"An obscure idea of the principles of syllabications just laid down, and the contradiction to them perceived in this exception, has made most of our ..."

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