 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of...reduced to any simpler word in the language : as, man, good, content. A derivative word is that which may be reduced to another word in English of greater... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...WORDS in general, and the RULES for spelKng them. A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of...a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable. WORDS are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas. All words are either primitive... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...; a* word of three fyllables, a Trifyllable; and a word of four or more fyllables, a Polyfyllable. All words are either primitive or derivative. A primitive word is that which cannot be reduced to any fimpler word in the language : as, man, good, content. A derivative word is that which may be reduced... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable 5 a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of taree syllables, a Trisyllable ; and a word of four or more...reduced to any simpler word in the language : as, man, good, content. > A dcr-n-ativi word is that which may be to another word in English of greater... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 114 pages
...sounds, used, by common consent, as signs of our ideas. A word of one syllabic is termed a monosyllable : a word of two syllables, a dissyllable ; a word of...reduced to any simpler word in the language ; as, man, good, content.A derivative word is that which may be reduced to another word in English of greater,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...Ao syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a Trisvllable; and a word of four or nlcrc, syllables, a Polysyllable. / All words are either...reduced to any simpler word in the language : as, 4man, good, content. A derivative word is that which maybe reduced tti another word in English of greater... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...expressive of significant sound, simple or compound. A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable; of two syllables, a dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable ; and a word of more than, three syllables,' is called a polysyllable. The last term, however, is frequently applied... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...Word of one Syllable is termed a Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word x>f three syllables, a Trisyllable ; and a word of four...Polysyllable. All Words are either primitive or derivative. Primitive Words are those which cannot be reduced to any simpler words in the language ; as, man, good,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1811 - 322 pages
...used by common con- ' sent, as signs of our ideas) ( A word of one syllable is termed a Monosyllable ; a word of two syllables, a Dissyllable ; a word of three syllables, a Trissyllable ; and a word of four or more syllables, a Polysyllable) OUl words arc either primitive... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...of one syllable is a monosyllable; of two, a dissyllable; of three, a trisyllable ; of four or more, a polysyllable. All words are either primitive or...be reduced to any simpler word in the language; as, man, good, content, York. A derivative word is that which may be reduced to another word in English... | |
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A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable, a word of two syllables, a dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. 
