Definition of "dissyllable" []

• Variant of disyllable. (noun)

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• "It closes a couplet and rhimes to a complete dissyllable in one of the most finishd productions of one of our most correct poets in the mechanism of versification."
• "I must object notwithstanding to his saying that Heaven cannot be a dissyllable."
• "This hapless dissyllable my uncle carried in person to the herald office in Scotland; but neither Lyon, nor Marchmont, nor Islay, nor Snadoun, neither herald nor pursuivant, would patronise Scrogie. —"