sexisyllabic
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
sexisyllabic (not comparable)
- Having six syllables; hexasyllabic.
- 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, […]
Translations
having six syllables — see hexasyllabic
References
- “sexisyllabic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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