syllabically pronounced. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
If you can think a word as syllabically satisfying, call me. From Wordnik.com. [mitten Diary Entry] Reference
If we can get away with syllabically reading ku and ra, why not also ba here?. From Wordnik.com. [Minoan citynames with an Egyptian accent] Reference
The form in general is clearly organized and based on the structure of the text, which tends to be delivered syllabically. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Authors continue to transcribe them consonantally rather than syllabically, completely ignoring what is already known about this New Kingdom group writing. From Wordnik.com. [Minoan citynames with an Egyptian accent] Reference
In effect, we admit that they're meant to be pronounced syllabically yet we completely ignore the syllables and completely ignore the state of the spoken language at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Minoan citynames with an Egyptian accent] Reference
But it is replied, with sufficient evidence of truth, that although the word be not found syllabically used unto this purpose, yet there are exceptive expressions equivalent unto it; as we shall see afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
Wherefore, in the declaration of the doctrine of the Trinity, we may lawfully, nay, we must necessarily, make use of other words, phrases, and expressions, than what are literally and syllabically contained in the. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
What I find interesting is not only that we can get away with reading this out syllabically based on a literal reading, but also that this symbol of all things was chosen, a symbol clearly of religious importance. From Wordnik.com. [Minoan citynames with an Egyptian accent] Reference
For this purpose, it is necessary to presume that many terminations, now mute, were syllabically pronounced; and where verses prove refractory after all our endeavours, Tyrwhitt has no scruple in declaring them corrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
For the term of satisfaction itself, it is granted that in this matter it is not found in the Scripture, — that is, it is not so rhētōs, or syllabically, — but it is kata to pragma anantirrhētōs; the thing itself intended is asserted in it, beyond all modest contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity] Reference
German are all more expansive, more syllabically copious. From Wordnik.com. [The Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
‘Very facetious!’ pronounced syllabically, but without moving. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering] Reference
I caught myself laughing, syllabically, and shrugging my shoulders, fitfully. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
We then find a word that syllabically fits "reflection", and it's "expression". From Wordnik.com. [Modern Guitars Magazine] Reference
Foster was his agent's idea, he said, because Da-vid Wal-lace was syllabically unmemorable. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
'Very facetious!' pronounced syllabically, but without moving a muscle of his own countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
"Attention!" is but one word, but it is the custom to divide it syllabically, thus, "Atten-shun!". From Wordnik.com. [Keeping Fit All the Way] Reference
This was always five lines in length, constructed syllabically 5, 7, 5, 7, 7, or thirty-one syllables in all. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Prints] Reference
English words can have a "slippery" amount of syllables because it isn't as constrained syllabically as Japanese. From Wordnik.com. [COMIXTALK] Reference
He likes to ooh and ahh his way through song intros, his voice is breathy rather than forceful, and his lyrics are denser semantically than syllabically. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The man himself - who, in syllabically-challenged non-Thai company, simply goes by "Joe" - professes bewilderment as to why his pictures create bewilderment. From Wordnik.com. [3quarksdaily] Reference
Behind me, the LET'S GO OAK-LAND chant morphed into the syllabically-identical KURT SU-ZUKI, and I let out one last tortured scream of BRAAAAAAAADDDLLLLEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY as Kurt swung his mighty stick and then all Heaven broke loose. From Wordnik.com. [Athletics Nation] Reference
Though this Protestant choir occasionally chopped through the mystery of the syllabically stressed Latin text, their "Hosanna" section took on elements of exuberant dance and carried well over the disproportionately sized orchestra. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com] Reference
pronounced syllabically, but without moving a muscle of his own countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter III] Reference
Also, to chime in on spyder331 and ceh above; koreans use an alphabet that’s written syllabically. From Wordnik.com. [Woorijip Now Serving “Korean Fried Chicken” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
Ribadda’s name is hardly ever spelled syllabically, though it is rendered certain by the cases in which it is so spelled. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings] Reference
(l. 129) — ode/joy — and, in doing so, tunes the mind's ear in anticipation of the banked crosslexical metaphorics by which the phrase "our embers," in the same line, is spread out syllabically (and fanned up figuratively) into the rekindled spark of "yet remembers" (l. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
For, unlike all other Semitic dialects, Assyrian is written not alphabetically, but either syllabically or ideographically, which means that Assyrian characters represent not consonants, but syllables, open or closed, simple or compound, and ideas or words, such as ka, bar, ilu, zikara, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
These same characters may also have both a syllabic and an ideographic value, nearly always more than one syllabic value and as many as five or six; so that a sign like the following (= |) may be read syllabically as ud, ut, u, tu, tam, bir, par, pir, lah, lih, hish, and his; ideographically as umu, "day"; pisu "white"; Shamash, the Sungod; etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
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