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eurhythmic, a. and n. pl.|juːˈrɪθmɪk|
[f. next + -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to well-arranged proportion, esp. in architecture.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 287 Each [design]..is exceedingly funny in its way..with regard to ‘tactic efficiency’, ‘eurythmic [sic] diathesis’..and every other imaginable kind of diathesis. 1855Lewes Goethe (1864) 177 Owing to some eurhythmic tendency in the construction of Greek plays.
2. Of or pertaining to eurhythmics (see below).
1921H. F. Rubinstein tr. Jaques-Dalcroze's Rhythm, Music & Educ. 196 Eurhythmic exercises enable the individual to feel and express music corporally.
B. n. pl. A system of rhythmical bodily movements, esp. dancing exercises, with musical accompaniment, freq. used for educational purposes.
1912Standard 27 Nov., Eurythmics [sic] is no longer a mysterious art—it is the new craze. Eurythmics is a word which Professor Jacques-Dalcroze has invented to describe his ‘rhythmic gymnastics’. 1920Challenge 21 May 44/3 In the Eurythmics of M. Jacques Dalcroze..the dancer expresses by improvized postures the emotions aroused by music. 1925C. Fox Educat. Psychol. 84 Dancing and eurhythmics in school.
Hence euˈrhythmical a., eurhythˈmician, euˈrhythmist.
1921H. F. Rubinstein tr. Jaques-Dalcroze's Rhythm, Music & Educ. 195 The art of the Eurhythmist is self-sufficient. Ibid. 206 Eurhythmicians watching exercises performed by fellow-students. 1923Daily Mail 17 Mar. 10 An eurhythmical display under the command of M. Jaques-Dalcroze. 1924J. J. Findlay in V. Davis Modern Teaching (1928) 101 The eurhythmist does not neglect or despise the body; he accepts the counsel of the trainer, but he leads his pupils to fix their attention on rhythmic values. |