Definition of Syllabise

1. Verb. Divide into syllables. "Syllabify the words"

Exact synonyms: Syllabicate, Syllabify, Syllabize
Generic synonyms: Section, Segment
Derivative terms: Syllabication, Syllable, Syllabification, Syllable, Syllable

2. Verb. Utter with distinct articulation of each syllable. "The poet syllabized the verses he read"
Exact synonyms: Syllabize
Generic synonyms: Articulate, Enounce, Enunciate, Pronounce, Say, Sound Out
Derivative terms: Syllable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllabise

syllabicating
syllabication
syllabications
syllabicities
syllabicity
syllabics
syllabificate
syllabificated
syllabificating
syllabification
syllabifications
syllabified
syllabifies
syllabify
syllabifying
syllabise (current term)
syllabism
syllabisms
syllabist
syllabists
syllabize
syllabized
syllabizes
syllabizing
syllable
syllable structure
syllabled
syllables
syllabling
syllabogram

Literary usage of Syllabise

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... the box, as he insinuates, gracefully assists the hesitating. Matthew, failing in syllabise, and not being a taker of snuff, threw himself ..."

2. Chapters on English Metre by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1886)
"Walker inserts good before lord, but we may perhaps di- syllabise ay, as in iv. 3. 45. For Eng|land. For Eng|land? A|y Ham|let. Good I and II. 1. 36. ..."

3. Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative: Embracing a Series of Years by John Randolph (1834)
"We do so emphasise, and syllabise, and vociferate, that I am persuaded no well-bred man of the last generation could hardly understand one of our modern ..."

4. Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative: Embracing a Series of Years by John Randolph (1834)
"We do so emphasise, and syllabise, and vociferate, that I am persuaded no well-bred man of the Is "^n could hardly understand one of our modern he did, ..."

5. Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. Quick by Robert Hebert Quick (1899)
"I wish I could rewrite the lectures and syllabise ahead, but this I have never managed to do. I always follow my pen. James Ward was saying of GH Lewes that ..."

6. Analytic Orthography: An Investigation of the Sounds of the Voice and Their by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1860)
"This, and poetic orthographies like Heav'n, sev'n (which no writing can mono- syllabise,) may have fostered the use of the apostrophe, as if there were ..."

7. Psalmista, Or Choir Melodies, an Extensive Collection of New and Available by Thomas Hastings, William B Bradbury (1852)
"A vocal ejercí«;, to be »ung with the syllabise. SECTION V. DYNAMICS. DYNAMIC CHARACTERS EXPLAINED. ..."

8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... the box, as he insinuates, gracefully assists the hesitating. Matthew, failing in syllabise, and not being a taker of snuff, threw himself ..."

9. Chapters on English Metre by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1886)
"Walker inserts good before lord, but we may perhaps di- syllabise ay, as in iv. 3. 45. For Eng|land. For Eng|land? A|y Ham|let. Good I and II. 1. 36. ..."

10. Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative: Embracing a Series of Years by John Randolph (1834)
"We do so emphasise, and syllabise, and vociferate, that I am persuaded no well-bred man of the last generation could hardly understand one of our modern ..."

11. Letters of John Randolph, to a Young Relative: Embracing a Series of Years by John Randolph (1834)
"We do so emphasise, and syllabise, and vociferate, that I am persuaded no well-bred man of the Is "^n could hardly understand one of our modern he did, ..."

12. Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. Quick by Robert Hebert Quick (1899)
"I wish I could rewrite the lectures and syllabise ahead, but this I have never managed to do. I always follow my pen. James Ward was saying of GH Lewes that ..."

13. Analytic Orthography: An Investigation of the Sounds of the Voice and Their by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1860)
"This, and poetic orthographies like Heav'n, sev'n (which no writing can mono- syllabise,) may have fostered the use of the apostrophe, as if there were ..."

14. Psalmista, Or Choir Melodies, an Extensive Collection of New and Available by Thomas Hastings, William B Bradbury (1852)
"A vocal ejercí«;, to be »ung with the syllabise. SECTION V. DYNAMICS. DYNAMIC CHARACTERS EXPLAINED. ..."

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