Crossword-Solution: DISSYLLABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dissyllable | n. | A word of two syllables; as, pa-per. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DISSYLLABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| metrical foot of two syllables | 3 answers |
| metrical foot | 12 answers |
| Speech sound | 33 answers |
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One’s able to vote
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
LCEEOTR
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with DISSYLLABLE (5)
Tamburlaine means--Do not KNEEL to me for his pardon.] [Footnote 194: once] So the 4to.--The 8vo "one."] [Footnote 195: martial] So the 8vo.--The 4to "materiall." (In this line "fire" is a dissyllable")] [Footnote 196: thine] So the 8vo.--The 4to "thy."] [Footnote 197: which] Old eds.
Philarchus, I remember, taxes Balzac for placing twenty monosyllables in file without one dissyllable betwixt them.
The dissyllable termination, which the critick rightly appropriates to the drama, is to be found, though, I think, not in Gorboduc which is confessedly before our authour; yet in Hieronnymo, of which the date is not certain, but which there is reason to believe at least as old as his earliest plays.
This is generally made a dissyllable by the Elizabethan dramatists; it occurs in the 'Tempest.' Prospero says-- 'I'll fill thy bones with aches.' What follows, which I do not remember _literatim_, is such metrically as to _require_ two syllables for aches.
Thee‰ze is here marked as a dissyllable, but although it is sometimes decidedly two syllables, its sounds are not always thus apparent in Somerset enunciation.
Quotes with DISSYLLABLE (1)
Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I was at.” When the book of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give chapter and verse. Mr. Pembroke, who was half way through the volume, and had skipped or forgotten the earlier pages, could not understand Rickie's hesitation, nor why with such awkwardness he should pronounce the harmless dissyllable “Ansell.