Subjunctive (mood). The hinge-mood; as, ‘If ye ask, ye shall receive.’
Suffix. A wordling put on at the end of a word; as, man-hood, good-ness, kind-ly. End-eking, an on-eking, a word-ending.
Superlative. The highest pitch.
Supposititious. Underfoisted, undersmuggled.
Syllepsis. Gr. syn, up, together; lēpsis, a taking. An uptaking, upmating, comprehension, as of a second or third person with a first; as, ‘I (1) and my brother (3) (we) learn Latin.’.
Syllepsis takes I, you, and he
As first persons, and all called we.
Synalœpha. Gr. syn, up; aleipho, to smear. Sound-welding. The welding up of two sounds into one, or the end of one word into the head of the following. In Latin verse—‘Conticuere omnes,’ ‘conticue͞r omnes,’ ‘conticuere‿omnes’—uttering the e and om in the time of one syllable. So in Italian—‘In prato‿in foresta,’ ‘Sia l’alba‿o la sera,’ ‘Se dorme‿il pastor’—the o i, and a o, and e i are uttered as one syllable. In English—‘Before the‿Almighty’s throne.’
By synalœpha breath-sounds run
A couple to the time of one.
Syncope. The cutting of a penning from within a word; as, ‘He ha-s’ for ‘he haves,’ ‘Gospel’ for ‘Godspel.’ The outcutting is truly an outwearing of the clipping.