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Pertaining to a polysyllable; containing, or characterized by, polysyllables; consisting of more than three syllables.

Polysyllabism.

Polysyllabism.

The quality or state of being polysyllabic.

A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables.

Characterized by polysyndeton, or the multiplication of conjunctions. -- Pol`y*syn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

n repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.

The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.

Characterized by polysynthesis; agglutinative. Polysynthetic twinning (Min.), repeated twinning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions.

Polysynthesis.

See Raskolnik.

hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring. "The posy of a ring." Shak.

Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.

Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance. [R.] Addison.

Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.

Exhibiting pseudo-symmetry.

A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

Attractive; persuasive. J. Morley.