Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of three or fewer syllables, as a word; trisyllabic, disyllabic, or monosyllabic: opposed to polysyllabic.
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Examples
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One of the scholastic definitions of God is this, -- _Deus est, cui omne quod est est esse omne quod est: _ as long a sentence made up of as few words, and those as oligosyllabic, as any I remember.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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_oligosyllabic_ is a word happily illustrative of its own meaning, _ex opposito_.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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