Whenever Tacitus ends a sentence with a polysyllabic word of five syllables he avoids its repetition at the close of the next sentence.
These ludicrous attempts are after all inefficient, while they compel us to recollect, if the thing indeed be possible, a polysyllabic combination as barbarous as the language of the Cherokees.
In the following pages I have eschewed all mystifying polysyllabic verbiage, and as Mark Twain once said, have "confined myself to a categorical statement of facts unincumbered by an obscuring accumulation of metaphor and allegory.
You haven't told me about the polysyllabic young man," she reminded.
Tell me all about that bunch of nifty lads I see cavorting around the store occasionally--and especially about the polysyllabic gentleman who seems to hang out at the Peaceful Hart ranch.
And by the way, I met that polysyllabic cowboy again--and I discovered that, on the whole, my estimate was incorrect.
He sets about it with an array of prefix and suffix, and polysyllabic strength, as if he were about to crush a cob-house with a crowbar.
There seems to be something cumbrous and stately in the utterance of their long polysyllabic words, as if they could not readily be brought down to the minute distinctions of every day family conversation.
He uses the polysyllabic termination less than earlier Dutch poets.
The following may serve as specimens of Tagal polysyllabic words:-- Anagnalalaqui son.
It should be added, however, that in respect to its monosyllabic character, he maintains that the shortness of many of its words is due to a secondary process; so that the older form of the language was more polysyllabic than the present.
Here the Monosyllabic andPolysyllabic languages branch off from a common centre.
Lastly are constructed polysyllabic words, formed by a combination into one word of two or more of the monosyllabic terms.
The same line separates the Monosyllabic andPolysyllabic Languages.
I shall commence these examples with the Chinese pronouns, most of which are absolutely identical with those of the polysyllabic languages.
The Germans' love for polysyllabic phrase-making, for which Jaures taunted them at the Amsterdam congress, was here given full play.
Throughout their frank discussions and involved debates there runs a certain polysyllabic flavor that is characteristically German.
And whenever such a correspondence exists, it is due either to the fact that the incidence of stress tends to lengthen a syllable or to the fact that, oftentimes, in polysyllabic words, mere length will produce a stress.
Stress coincides with the word-accent of polysyllabic words because the accent is placed on those syllables, usually the root-syllables, which carry the essential meaning.
Owing to these licences, and to the introduction of polysyllabic theses, the rhythm of the verse sometimes becomes very heavy.
With regard to trisyllabic and polysyllabic words the remarks on pp.
Other variations may be effected by disyllabic or even polysyllabic theses in the beginning ('anacruses') or in the middle of the verse instead of monosyllabic theses.
Most of the instances occur in the first hemistich; in this position the anacrusis may be polysyllabic (extending sometimes to four syllables), sometimes with resolution of the arsis, or with polysyllabic thesis.
Besides the unaccented syllables of polysyllabic words, many monosyllables, such as prepositions, pronouns, &c.
Trisyllabic and polysyllabic words, too, of French or Latin origin are still used frequently in the beginning of the Modern English period with an accentuation contrary to present usage.
The spoken language ispolysyllabic and harmonious, and possesses conjugations, tenses, cases, &c.
They have had more intercourse with the Chinese, but have not been able to make their polysyllabic words assimilate with the monosyllables of the Chinese.
The tendency in polysyllabic languages after reaching the phonetic stage, was to greater complexity and an increase of explanatory signs in systems of writing.
The necessities of a polysyllabic language, however, suggested a further advance.
In an advanced stage of syllabism not all of the articulations of polysyllabic words were thus represented.
Polysyllabic nouns with short stem-syllables fluctuate between the retention or loss of the {e}, as gen.
He departed from my view, a perplexing and polysyllabic problem, claiming for himself a useless and preposterous purity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polysyllabic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
