Definition of "syllable"

I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.

2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, page 543

Is the King's hand and tongue; and The ArchbishopIs the King's hand and tongue; and who dare speakOne syllable against him?

1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

Then let them cast backe their eies unto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the World, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Job, and the rest that lived before any syllable of the Law of God was written, did they not sinne as much as we doe in every action not commanded?

1622, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, page 60

In none of my travels did I ever meet him or learn a syllable of his whereabouts.

1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22

Begin to throng A thousand fantasiesBegin to throng into my memoryOf calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire,And airy tongues, that syllable mens namesOn Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.read onlin

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,