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Meanings of dissyllabic in English

Comprising two syllables.

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Examples for "disyllabic"
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What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
Usage of dissyllabic in English
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For lack of monosyllabic English words the verbs and movements were dissyllabic words.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 / Containing Sixteen Exp...
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The very numerous double (dissyllabic) rhymes of the Norwegian are not easy to render in English.
Poems and Songs
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The wrenching of accent for metrical purposes, moreover, is not confined to the dissyllabic words which show the simple recession of accent.
The Principles of English Versification
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The ball swung on and on, and Madelon, up in the musicians' gallery, sang the old country-dances in the curious dissyllabic fashion termed lilting.
Madelon: A Novel
Dissyllabic through the time