unˈsyllabled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not formed into, not expressed in, syllables.
| 1594 Southwell M. Magd. Funeral Teares 69 b, The heart pressing out the vnsillabled breath at once. 1594 Zepheria xl, If she shall attend what fortunes sequeld The naufrage of my poore afflicted barke, Then tell, but tell in words unsillabled. 1832 Motherwell Jeanie Morrison ix, When freely gushed all feelings forth, Unsyllabled—unsung. 1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xvii, With gaspings, gesturings, with unsyllabled cries. 1873 Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xxxiii, She was..trying to put something clearly into syllables that said itself, unsyllabled, to her. |