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syllabically, adv.|sɪˈlæbɪkəlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2; see -ically.]
In a syllabic or syllabical manner.
1. † In syllables, in audible words, articulately (obs.); syllable by syllable, with distinct utterance of the syllables; as a separate syllable.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God x. xv. 381 Wherein [sc. in the mouths of Angels] Gods person would appeare, and speake syllabically in a mans voyce, unto us. a1660Hammond Serm. Rom. i. 26 Wks. 1684 I. 657 The first voice of nature..which it uttered..when it was an infant in the World, and therefore perhaps..not so plainly, and syllabically, and distinctly, as could have been wished. 1811Southey in Q. Rev. Oct. 278 They first read the words syllabically. 1837Hallam Lit. Eur. I. i. viii. §26. 433 It is necessary to presume that many terminations, now mute, were syllabically pronounced. 1862Sala Seven Sons II. xi. 286 Tottenham — he pronounced the word very syllabically.
†2. Syllable for syllable; word for word; hence, precisely, in every detail. Obs.
1654Warren Unbelievers 55 The Scripture doth syllabically repeat these words. 1661Gauden Consid. Liturgy 25 These and many like places,..though they do not literally and syllabically agree with the quotation,..may sufficiently justifie that place..to be..a Divine Scriptural Truth. 1698[R. Ferguson] View Eccles. 7 Scrupling, at certain Words and Phrases, which were not ῥητως, or Literally, and Syllabically Canonical. a1778Toplady Wks. (1828) III. 446 It is called St. Athanasius's Creed; not because it was syllabically composed by him, but [etc.].
3. In relation to a syllable or syllables; by syllabic characters.
1795Mason Ch. Mus. ii. 95 Those parts or versicles which..are syllabically distinguished by notes of different musical duration. 1888[see syllabic A. 1 b]. 1908Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/3 Showing how Chinese sounds could be reproduced alphabetically or syllabically. |