Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a syllabic manner; by syllables.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a syllabic manner.
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- adverb In terms of
syllables .
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- adverb in or with syllables
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aesop, as always, flows about something that probably makes sense in his syllabically dense, high octane baritone.
Twisting Melodies Beyond the Laws of Physics « PubliCola 2010
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He likes to ooh and ahh his way through song intros, his voice is breathy rather than forceful, and his lyrics are denser semantically than syllabically.
Alex Remington: Of the Heart, Of the Soul, and Of the Cross: A Hip-Hop Road Not Taken 2009
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The form in general is clearly organized and based on the structure of the text, which tends to be delivered syllabically.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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In effect, we admit that they're meant to be pronounced syllabically yet we completely ignore the syllables and completely ignore the state of the spoken language at the time.
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What I find interesting is not only that we can get away with reading this out syllabically based on a literal reading, but also that this symbol of all things was chosen, a symbol clearly of religious importance.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Authors continue to transcribe them consonantally rather than syllabically, completely ignoring what is already known about this New Kingdom group writing.
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If we can get away with syllabically reading ku and ra, why not also ba here?
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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If we can get away with syllabically reading ku and ra, why not also ba here?
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What I find interesting is not only that we can get away with reading this out syllabically based on a literal reading, but also that this symbol of all things was chosen, a symbol clearly of religious importance.
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This leaves vowels 'a' and 'i' for the next decades, unless we have a return to syllabically coded decades ala the '60s which were the days of smoking 'j's' in which case the 2010s could be the "Rrrrr" decade of piratic upheavals or the "Zzzz Years," the forgotten decade.
Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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