A trisyllable.

The comedies, however, were unfortunately modelled on those of the ancients; and the constant termination of the verse with trisyllables contributes to render them tedious.

" We ought, no doubt, to read "professed,"a trisyllable.

Our author usually makes a trisyllable of "gentleman"; here it counts only as a monosyllable.

Monosyllables and trisyllables to what likened.

The trisyllables, and the rumblers of syllables more than three, are but the good-for-little magnates.

Therefore, creia would probably be a trisyllable.

Therefore, in cambiáos the combination iáo might form a dissyllable or a trisyllable.

Therefore, rehuí might be a monosyllable, a dissyllable, or a trisyllable.

Decasyllabic Verse: A verse of ten syllables may be formed by the triple repetition of the trisyllable /.

The number of dissyllables is numerous, and of trisyllables still more so.

The tenth edition of Burn's Grammar, dated 1810, says, "It has become customary to omit k after c at the end of dissyllables and trisyllables, &c. as music, arithmetic, logic; but the k is retained in monosyllables; as, back, deck, rick, &c."P. 25.

"Trisyllables ending in re or le, accent the first syllable.

"A word of three syllables is termed a trisyllable.

For example: "A word of one syllable, is called a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, is called a dissyllable: a word of three syllables, is called a trisyllable: a word of four or more syllables, is called a polysyllable.

"He seems," says Dennis, "to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony, that is, the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.

After bestowing the highest panegyric upon Shakespear, he says, 'That he seems to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony; that is the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.