dissyllable

I must object notwithstanding to his saying that Heaven cannot be a dissyllable.

Letter 111 2009

It closes a couplet and rhimes to a complete dissyllable in one of the most finishd productions of one of our most correct poets in the mechanism of versification.

Letter 111 2009

This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie. —

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

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.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

She looked at him closely; her ear attuned to his voice caught the slightest thickness in the dissyllable.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

B. however supports Rossetti, and in point of fact Shelley usually wrote lightenings, even where the word counts as a dissyllable (Locock).

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

The icy-hearted Scandinavian, whose austere cooking and sardonic manner of waiting on table had so depressed Gloria, gave way to an exceedingly efficient Japanese whose name was Tanalahaka, but who confessed that he heeded any summons which included the dissyllable

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

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.

Preface to Shakespeare 1969