释义 |
ˈrhythmically, adv. [f. rhythmical + -ly2.] †1. So as to rime. Obs.
1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. vii. 156 The Affix (וני) is twice Rhythmically repeated. 2. In a rhythmical manner; with rhythmical movement; in rhythm; with respect to rhythm.
1775Steele in Phil. Trans. LXV. 74 These two specimens of melody..are, harmonically, the same, though rhythmically different. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 232 The metrical lines of Hawes, for the greater part, must be read rhythmically. 1849–52Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. ii. 1143/1 When the tongue is thus protruded, the retractor muscle..contracts rhythmically. 1852Thackeray Esmond i. (1876) 1 The Chorus..rhythmically and decorously bewailing the fates of those great crowned persons. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. vii. (1879) I. 241 The water rises and sinks rhythmically. |