sillabication
English
Noun
sillabication (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of syllabication [17th century]
- 1631, James Mabbe, translating Fernando de Rojas’s 1499 The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina: or, The Tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea, chapter 18, page 180:
- I sweare unto thee by the crisse-crosse row, by the whole Alphabet, and Sillabication of the letters.
- 1631, James Mabbe, translating Fernando de Rojas’s 1499 The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina: or, The Tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea, chapter 18, page 180:
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