How To Use Trisyllable In A Sentence
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When the word ‘scientist’ was first spoken in 1833, it was meant as a joke: its coinage first drew laughs and later was attacked as ‘an American barbarous trisyllable.’
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_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.
The Reckoning
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
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[52] A trisyllable, as in strictness it ought to be.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The signal of the middle syllable of each trisyllable pronunciation is then extracted to make a synthesis unit.
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Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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Thus, if the first line end with an accented monosyllable, the second line will end with a dissyllabic word accented on its first syllable, or if the first line end with a dissyllable accented on its penultimate the second line will end with a trisyllable accented on its ante-penultimate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included.
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A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ca'tion.
The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronuncia
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Could'st thou not find a trisyllable to express some parts of nature for a collection of which that learned and worthy physician is eminent?
Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
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This has all the technical marks of late Elizabethan dramatic blank verse: "vision" as a trisyllable; the redundant syllable in the middle of the line; the colloquial abbreviation of "in the"; not to mention the fanciful vein of the whole passage, which might lead any one unacquainted with Milton to look for this quotation among the dramas of the prime.
Milton
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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A disyllable consists of two syllables, and a trisyllable of three.
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It gives them no direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
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Metrically it represents one short and two long quantities (U — —), forming in Latin a trisyllable foot, called
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
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A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
