Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a trisyllable; in three syllables.
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- adverb In
three syllables .
Etymologies
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trisyllabic + -ally
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[2] '_As a dissyllable_:' -- just as the _Annesley_ family, of which Lord Valentia is the present head, do not pronounce their name trisyllabically (as strangers often suppose), but as the two syllables
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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