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A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable. Goodwin.

d; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

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

A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix. Parkhurst.

Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.

To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.

Consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

ation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

A foot consisting of two short syllables.

Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word.

A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

Geom.) See under Axis. -- Radical pitch, the pitch or tone with which the utterance of a syllable begins. Rush. -- Radical quantity (Alg.), a quantity to which the radical sign is prefixed; specifically, a quantity which is not a perfect power of the degree indicated by the radical sign; a surd. -- Radical sign (Mat…

A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.

ressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.

The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.

Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must b…