Definition of Monosillabic
Mon`o*syl*lab"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
monosyllabique.] Being a monosyllable, or composed of
monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic
language. -- Mon`o*syl*lab"ic*al*ly (#),
adv.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary
babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound
by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is
to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable
of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
The man who writes in Saxon
Is the man to use an ax on
Judibras
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Consisting of one syllable.
- Using monosyllables.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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