syllabation

Noun

syllabation (uncountable)

1. (rare) syllabification
   • Its syllabation partakes of the columnal system of the extreme Orientals, the Chinese; and the varied nature of its characters demands the width of at least three parallel lines for their co-arrangement.1829 June 20, F.C. Belfour, “A Dissertation on the Establishment and Present State of the Arabic Press, Both in the East and West” in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign...
   • syllabicate 2 syllabication 1
     syllabify 2 syllabification 1
     syllabize 1 syllabization 3
     One first-class verb, two first-class nouns, but neither of those nouns belonging to that verb. It is absurd enough, & any of several ways out would do; that indeed is why none of them is taken. The best thing...1926, Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1st ed., Oxford at the Clarendon Press), page 590, column 2, “syllabize &c.” syllabize &c. A verb & a noun are clearly sometimes...

   Synonyms:

   syllabification, syllabisation