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All these three-syllabic measures have a quicker movement than the two-syllabic, owing to the greater number of unaccented, unemphatic syllables.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
  2. adjective Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
  3. adjective Linguistics Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle (rĭdˈl), the two syllabic sounds are the (i˘) and the (l).
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  • The State Triumvirate is in octo-syllabic verse, and in the manner of Swift, but the allusions are obscure, and it is a task to read it. —  A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck
  • The Japanese phonetic system is syllabic, always pairing consonants with vowels except when individual vowels stand alone. —  COMIXTALK
  • You remember him, the senior forward from Penn, whose lively prose here has kicked off a heated debate about pretension, as well as some witty byplay and multi-syllabic trash talking between the grads of our Ivy League schools. —  The Bracket
  • They are notable for their syllabic script which predates the arrival of the Spanish by at least 300 years. —  village idiot savant
  • Longtime and multi-syllabic Austin sextet Trail Of Dead went about reminding you of their presences via Festival Thyme, the EP where you first got a taste (via alternate takes) of —  PlugInMusic.com
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  1. Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Greek sullabikos, from sullabē, syllable; see syllable.

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  1. = French syllabique = Spanish silábico = Portuguese syllabico = Italian sillabico, from New Latin syllabicus, from Greek συλλαβικός, of or pertaining to a syllable, from συλλαβή, syllable: see syllable.
 

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/sɪˈlæbɪk/
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