In the first place his vehicle is the swift-moving French octo-syllabic couplet, which alone gives an entirely different tone to the narrative from that of Geoffrey's high-sounding Latin prose.

The language is quaint and simple in syllabic construction; but the book altogether is a mass of dreamy, puzzling historyis either a sacred fiction plagiarised, or a useless and senile jumble of Christian and Red Indian tradition.

literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular^, minuscular^; uncial &c (writing) 590. 562.

Note that in some cases the root word itself is a compound form such as xxx-xxxx, and is rendered as xxx-xxx 3) Simple unideographic references to vocalic sounds, single letters, or alphabeic dipthongs; and prefixes, suffixes, and syllabic references are represented by a single preceding dash; thus, -x, or -xxx.

The North and the South, the East and the West had been mingled together; the heated and heaving mass had been tempered by the leaven of Christianity:and had all this been done only to produce an octo-syllabic metre in praise of fantastic and semi- barbaric sentiments and exploits?

Tenses expressing past time (Imperf. and Aorists Indic.) prefix ε ("syllabic augment") to the root; this coalesces with an initial vowel ("temporal augment") into the corresponding long vowel or diphthong.

not only do the same throughout the moods, but also prefix to the syllabic augment the initial consonant of the root ("reduplication") when this is a simple consonant or a mute followed by a liquid.

prefixes a second syllabic augment to the reduplication. § 61.

Initial ρ, (which is doubled after the syllabic augment,) βλ, γλ, and γν, do not, except in a few cases, allow the reduplication.

By substituting the slow and verbose pentameter of what is called the classic school of English poetry for the remarkably forth-right and simple eight-syllabic measure of the original, the translator has contrived to lose almost wholly that homely flavor of the old poet, which Goethe carefully preserved.

In general, however, his appreciation of music was subordinate to his study of syllabic movement in versification; and it was with reference chiefly to poetic measure, I have been told, that he acquired what mastery he had over the accordion and guitar.

In its best days, it was second only to Bath, and little did its belles and beaux dream of the fishified village of Brighthelmstone, in the adjoining county, spreading to a city, and being docked of its syllabic proportions to the Brighton of ears polite.

Giotto, Era Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Gentile da Fabriano, Ghirlandajo, names like the beads of a rosary, commence the list, to which Botticelli, Perugino, Raffaello Santi, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, Tiziano, Veronese, and, last of all, with a name like the blast of a trumpet, the mighty Michael the Archangel, add their syllabic charm.

But when we divide for the third purpose, and intend to show what is the pronunciation of a word, we must, if possible, divide into such syllabic sounds as will exactly recompose the word, when put together again; as, or-thog-ra-phy, the-ol-o-gy.

Nor can the distinct syllabic utterance of the termination ed be now generally practised, except in solemn prose.

Est, like es, is generally a syllabic termination; but st, like s, is not.

In this, since syllabic length and shortness are relative to each other, and to the cause of each, he was, perhaps, hardly consistent.

In opposition to Sheridan, who not very consistently says, that, "All unaccented syllables are short," this author appears to have adopted the greater error of Fisher, who supposed that the vowel sounds called long and short, are just the same as the long and short syllabic quantities.

9. Does syllabic quantity always follow the quality of the vowels?

Latin, names of the letters of, scarcely known even to the learned; account of its letters A perfect alphabet in Eng., what it would effect Letters of the alphabet, when and how used in the sciences Alphabetic writing, its advantage over the syllabic Ambiguous, construc., with respect to the class of a word do., with resp.

So long as the practice continues of denominating certain mere vowel sounds the long and the short, it will be very necessary to notice that these are not the same as the syllabic quantities, long and short, which constitute English verse.

The thing he could not forgive, however, and which infuriated him most, was the workmanship of the hexameters, beating like empty tin cans and extending their syllabic quantities measured according to the unchanging rule of a pedantic and dull prosody.

We would trust the general ear in such questions of syllabic rhythm, and would protect as far as possible the old harmonious cadences of our traditional speech.

It is certain, however, that he made no use of the sign-language, though there is some evidence that he invented and practised a system of syllabic dactylology.

The chief difference between Troubadour and Gregorian music lies in the fact that the former was syllabic in character; in other words, one note was not held over several syllables, though several notes might be sung upon one syllable.