A dissyllable or trisyllable precedes the caesura.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

Cales (13), pronounced as a dissyllable, is of course Cadiz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

I must object notwithstanding to his saying that Heaven cannot be a dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 111] Reference

Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

His 'yes' was on two notes and became a dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin Kane] Reference

Where we are rightly told that 'year' may be a dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising] Reference

I said, completely baffled by this extraordinary dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enormous Room] Reference

Giamschid, and I have reduced it to a dissyllable within this half hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference

Forêt! forêt! what a magic there is in that little French dissyllable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Martian] Reference

It is only of late years that Forbes has generally ceased to be a dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson]

This is generally made a dissyllable by the Elizabethan dramatists; it occurs in the 'Tempest.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference

Cupping his hands about his mouth, Grimm wheeled to face the gallery and shouted a curiously high-pitched dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play] Reference

Japanese whose name was Tanalahaka, but who confessed that he heeded any summons which included the dissyllable "Tana.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

In any case (even if it were a dissyllable) F would, with the DI of LUDI, form two long syllables and scan as a spondee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bacon is Shake-Speare] Reference

Then there's Henry's niece, Joan -- "then pronounced as a dissyllable, Joan --" but I wouldn't have such a sloven about me.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford] Reference

LUCILLA (a little uncomfortable at the substitution of the monosyllable for the dissyllable, nevertheless persisting in her orthodoxy).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics of the Dust] Reference

Member has autocratic power to delay progress of particular Bills approaching Committee stage by murmuring or shouting a magic dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914] Reference

B. however supports Rossetti, and in point of fact Shelley usually wrote lightenings, even where the word counts as a dissyllable (Locock).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference

'fire' doubtless is sometimes pronounced as a dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising] Reference

‘months’ is probably to be read as a dissyllable, either as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference

A long name, instead of a handy monosyllable are dissyllable like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference

Dissect is a dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [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 Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

No need for more than that sad dissyllable.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

'Valentine' is found as a dissyllable I. 2. 38.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference