sexisyllabic
English
Alternative forms
- sexasyllabic
Adjective
sexisyllabic (not comparable)
- Having six syllables.
- 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination
- If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
- 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination
Synonyms
- hexasyllabic
Translations
having six syllables — see hexasyllabic
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sexisyllabic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)