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  • adjective especially in combination Having (a specified type or number of) vowels

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Examples

  • Herodotus and Homer win, with their "vowelled" Greek, his warmest enthusiasm; whole nights of fever are devoted to them; disturbing dreams of an Odyssey of his own come to him.

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • The reason that I bothered with the argument of vowelless [mz] being pronounceable is simply that I do, in fluent speech, usually produce the vowelless [mz], and therefore wanted to explain the more objectionable position, figuring the vowelled pronunciation of Ms. could defend itself.

    “Ms.”-ing the point « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • The long-vowelled build-up to the abruptness of "kin" is masterly – and "kin", along with "adventure", is the work's chief theme.

    The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review Adam Thorpe 2010

  • And he does treat me to a blast of his Richard Burton, richly vowelled and camply theatrical ( "Oh, what a piece of work is a man!").

    Rob Brydon: the interview 2010

  • Watad (a tentpeg) also is prosodical, a foot when the two first letters are “moved” (vowelled) and the last is jazmated (quiescent), e.g. Lakad.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The metres, our feet, were called “Arkán,” the stakes and stays of the tent; the syllables were “Usúl” or roots divided into three kinds: the first or “Sabab” (the tent-rope) is composed of two letters, a vowelled and a quiescent consonant as

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • B; or of a vowelled consonant followed by a consonant as Bal, Bau

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • One who is entirely ignorant55 of the modes of Art in its revelation or the moods of thought in its progress, of the pomp of the Latin line or the richer music of the vowelled Greek, of Tuscan sculpture or Elizabethan song, may yet be full of the very sweetest wisdom.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • Steeling himself, Elric Began to speak the ancient and terrible, many-vowelled names of the beings who existed in the air.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • Steeling himself, Elric Began to speak the ancient and terrible, many-vowelled names of the beings who existed in the air.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

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  • (adjective) - Supplied or provided with vowels, especially to an unusual extent. Also with qualifying terms, as well-vowelled. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928

    April 23, 2018