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ˈsyllab, ˈsyllabe Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 5 north. silapp(e, sylypp, 6 sillab(e, syllape, 6–7 syllabe, 7–8 syllab, 9 Sc. syllup.
[a. OF. sillabe (mod. syllabe): see syllable n.]
= syllable n.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 104 Silappis & wurdis þat er ouerhippid, & also versis of þe salter & wurdis er mombled. c1440York Myst. x. 26 Abram first named was I, And sythen he sette a sylypp ma. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 144 Homo est Asinus is cause of moche stryfe Thus passe forth these folys the dayes of theyr lyfe In two syllabis. 1529Lyndesay Compl. 91 The first sillabis that thow did mute Was ‘pa, Da Lyn, vpon the lute’. a1533Frith Answ. More (1548) C vj b, I neuer altered one syllabe of Gods worde. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 148 Their feete be..not distinct by trew quantitie of sillabes. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. v. ii. 37, I will not change a syllab, with thee, more. 1636― Eng. Gram. i. §2 A Word..consisteth of one or more Syllabes. 1762Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) I. 102 With staring looks and open jaws They catch each syllab as it flows. 1785in Shirrefs Poems (1790) 318 Sic verses..And no ae syllab' o' them wrang. 1889Barrie Window in Thrums xix. 181 There hasna been a syllup aboot it. |