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Definition of Alliterate
1. Verb. Use alliteration as a form of poetry.
Generic synonyms: Rhyme, Rime
Derivative terms: Alliteration, Alliterative, Alliterator
Definition of Alliterate
1. v. t. To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
2. v. i. To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
Definition of Alliterate
1. Verb. to use alliteration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alliterate
1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alliterate
Literary usage of Alliterate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... and little Skipper—A young Caliban—An alliterate Man—Fishermen —Nurseries—Navy—The
Way to train up a Child—Gulf Stream —Humboldt—Crossing the ..."
2. Paronmasia in the Old Testament by Immanuel Moses Casanowicz (1894)
"Consonants which alliterate with Each Other. In Latin, Old German, and Anglo-Saxon,
alliteration is restricted to precisely the same consonants.11 In Hebrew ..."
3. Félire Húi Gormáin: The Martyrology of Gorman, Edited from a Manuscript in by Gorman (1895)
"Seme, Scandal, June 27—a noticeable deviation from the rule that sc can alliterate
only with sc. scr alliterates with sc (and scr) ..."
4. Judith: Studies in Metre, Language and Style, with a View to Determining the by Thomas Gregory Foster (1892)
"In the Battle of Maldon both forms alliterate in 11. ... 'eal', the author of
Judith avails himself of the freedom to alliterate, or not, when 1 cf. ..."
5. The Versification of King Horn by Henry Skinner West (1907)
"... permitted: (1) all initial 8 sounds to alliterate together—so that st, sp,
and so (sic) are not limited to themselves ; (2) 5 and j and any g to ..."
6. Alliteration in Spenser's Poetry Discussed and Compared with the by Virginia Eviline Spencer (1898)
"A proper name may alliterate with a verb as subject and predicate, ... Proper names
may alliterate in a coordinate construction, and also frequently ..."
7. Chapters on Alliterative Verse: Dissertation, 1892 by John Lawrence (1893)
"In the second of the above examples es is clearly in the first arsis, and therefore
may fairly be held to alliterate. Similar is the case of are in v. ..."
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