syllabize, v.
(ˈsɪləbaɪz)
[ad. med.L. syllabizāre, ad. Gr. συλλαβίζειν, f. συλλαβή syllable n.: see -ize. Cf. F. syllabiser.]
1. trans. To form or divide into syllables; to utter or articulate with distinct separation of syllables.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Syllabize, to divide by syllables. 1660 Howell Parly of Beasts Pref. Verses b ij, 'Tis Man⁓kind alone Can Language frame, and syllabize the Tone. 1831 Examiner 694/1 Every word is syllabized, and every syllable protracted to three times its due quantity. |
2. intr. To sing notes to syllables, as in solmization. nonce-use.
| 1782 Burney Hist. Mus. II. ii. 105 It may be said, that to syllabize in quick passages is little more than to speak, but to vocalize is to sing. |
Hence ˈsyllabized ppl. a.; ˈsyllabizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1831 Examiner 259/2 A drawling tone and syllabizing pronunciation. Ibid. 822/1 The syllabizing of the dialogue, and the roulading of the music, are equally out of place. 1885 Athenæum 13 June 762/3 Irish metric, like that of the Slavonic peoples, has passed from an original purely syllabizing system to an accentuating one. 1957 A. Oras in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 112 Milton's growing dislike of syllabized -ed endings. 1969 Computers & Humanities III. 257 The latter is based upon successive scanning of the syllabized text in groups of four, three, two and one characters. |