sillabication

English

Noun

sillabication (uncountable)

1. 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.