Lexicographical Neighbors of Synalephas
Literary usage of Synalephas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... into English. as we call it, a run of verse, as like the original, as the
English can come up to the Latin. , As he seldom uses any synalephas, ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"He avoids like the other all synalephas, or cutting off one vowel when it comes
before another in the following word ; so that, minding only smoothness, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Virgil, though smooth, where smoothness is required, is so far from affecting
it, that he rather disdains it; frequently using synalephas, and concluding ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... into English. as we call it, a run of verse, as like the original, as the
English can come up to the Latin. , As he seldom uses any synalephas, ..."
5. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"He avoids like the other all synalephas, or cutting off one vowel when it comes
before another in the following word ; so that, minding only smoothness, ..."
6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Virgil, though smooth, where smoothness is required, is so far from affecting
it, that he rather disdains it; frequently using synalephas, and concluding ..."
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