# syllabate
## English
### Verb

syllabate (third-person singular simple present syllabates, present participle syllabating, simple past and past participle syllabated)
* (rare) Synonym of syllabify
** 1895 June 15, Eliza B. Burnz, “What is the Unit of Language?”, in The School Journal, volume L., number 24, New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., page 646:City teachers, now-a-days, are greatly diverted when they hear of a country school, way back in some rural district far from a railroad, in which children are taught to read and spell on the ancient plan of calling the names of letters; b-a—ba, b-e—be, b-i—bi, etc.; running the consonent letters from B to Z with the vowels following; a-b—ab, e-b—eb, and so on to a-z—az, i-z—iz; ending at u-z—uz, when the name of the land where dwelt the patient Job is struck. Such syllabating is now gone out of fashion.
** 1896, “The Fonic Speller and Sylabater”, in Reminissensez Ov Scul Lif:The spelling and sylllabating exercises begin with the simplest sounds and the shortest words, homophonously arranged;
** 1896, H. B. Hulbert, “Correspondence”, in The Korean Repository, volume III, Seoul: The Trilingual Press, page 418:So the term panjul was used for designating the Korean syllabated alphabet.
** 1930, Il Carroccio: The Italian Review, page 48:When Giannina ended her narration Doctor Coperti syllabated “Well, well,” and still remained gazing into the girl’s eyes.
** 1971, Travaux Linguistiques de Prague, page 45:On the basis of this same status as a behavioral unit, the syllable is considered to be a potential universal — it is assumed that syllabating behavior is likely to occur in many speech communities, but it is not considered a necessary aspect of speech behavior.
** 1973, Julian Budden, The Operas of Verdi, page 118:The verses are syllabated over a brisk march-like tune, picked out with first violins, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and trombone.
** 1976, Glossa, page 139:As was pointed out in connection with the discussion of Tuscarora, the phonetic realization of syllabated speech usually, for any given language, has more phonetic segments per lexical item than does the phonetic realization of slow-careful, casual, or allegro speech.
** 1979, Solomon M. Mutswairo, editor, Zimbabwe: Prose and Poetry, page 217:That way the passersby shall see / You laid me beneath a mutepe / Whose languid ground-pointing leaves / Rub fingers green-softly in commemoration / Syllabating, hushing me: / Sleep, tired traveller! Sleep and rest!
** 1985, William H. Gass, Habitations of the Word: Essays, page 11:At first they are addressed to crowds—in Boston or Hanover—but they always aim at the single ear, the solitary listener: the silence of the word syllabating in the silence of the reader’s world—in the silence of the private house, in the hall of the whole body.
** 1993, L’opera Teatrale Di Gaetano Donizetti: Atti Del Convegno Internazionale Di Studio, Bergamo, 17-20 Settembre 1992, page 124:Not so, however, Chevreuse’s cavatina in Maria di Rohan (“Gemea di tetro carcere”), which is launched by a long “syllabated” anacrusis, suggesting the continuation of a conversation.
** 1997 April 20, khad young, “goth last names: fun and like play”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet):i don't even care if it sounds corny (like khad de montebel or something equally overly syllabated).
** 1999 September 29, SLieber24, quoting Alberto Moreira, “Do Phonics Programs Produce Better Readers?”, in misc.education (Usenet):In Portuguese or Spanish, it's rare the word that cannot be syllabated on sight, and those will typically be words of foreign origin.
** 2008, Sallie Lowenstein, In the Company of Whispers, Lion Stone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 222:“Another world?” I suggested, barely syllabating out loud.
** 2015, Domenico Russo, “The Syllables of Adriano. Seven Notes on Ontogenesis of Language”, in The Notion of Syllable Across History, Theories and Analysis, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 510:Therefore the newborn must already be able to syllabate the words of adults, extract occurrences from them and experiment with them, which is obviously not possible.