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▪ I. riming, vbl. n.|ˈraɪmɪŋ|
Also 4–7, 9 ryming, 7 rimeing.
[f. rime v.1]
= rhyming vbl. n.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. Prol. 48 Thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily. 1448–9J. Metham Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 81 He off rymyng toke the besynes To comfforte them that schuld falle in heuynes. a1500Lancelot 322 To me nor to non vthir It accordit, In to our rymyng his nam to be recordit. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 147 This mislikyng of Ryming beginneth not now of any newfangle singularitie. c1645Howell Lett. I. i. xl, Their prosody, and vein of versifying or riming, which is like our Bards. 1692Dennis Pass. Byblis Pref. C, My Lord Roscommon..was nicely exact in Riming, whenever he pretended to rime. 1775T. Tyrwhitt Lang. & Versificat. Chaucer 53 The practice of Riming is probably to be deduced from the same original. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VI. 284 You..say 'tis very hard To range your rimings as befits a Sonnet. 1880Ruskin On the Old Road Wks. 1899 III. 60 There is to be rich ryming and chiming, no matter how simply got.
attrib.1599Shakes. Much Ado v. ii. 40, I was not borne vnder a riming Plannet.
▪ II. riming, ppl. a.|ˈraɪmɪŋ|
Also ryming.
[f. rime v.1]
1. = rhyming ppl. a. 1.
1590Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburlaine Prol., Iygging vaine of riming mother wits. 1623Camden Rem. (ed. 3) 6 For Wales..an old riming Poet sung thus [etc.]. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 149 The trencher fury of a riming parasite. 1711E. Ward Vulgus Brit. ii. 119 For no Fanatick Riming Brother Can well do one without the other. 1764Churchill Candidate 149 Some riming guest Roams thro' the church-yard, whilst his Dinner's dress'd.
2. = rhyming ppl. a. 2.
1563Mirr. Mag. ii. 145 b, Is it treason in a riming frame To clyp, to stretche, to adde, or chaunge a name? 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. v. (Arb.) 26 The American, the Perusine and the very Canniball, do sing and also say, their highest and holiest matters in certaine riming versicles. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 251 Sophisticate eloquence and riming harmony of words. 1665Cosin Memorandum (Surtees) 269 Some former Deanes..have appoynted..a ryming Psalm to be sung instead of the Nicene Creed before Sermon. 1775T. Tyrwhitt Lang. & Versificat. Chaucer 56 Except a few lines in the Saxon Chronicle..and a short Canticle,..I have not been able to discover any attempts at Riming Poetry, which can with probability be referred to an earlier period than the reign of Henry the Second. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. App. 562 In the riming Chronicle of John Page. 1873Morris O.E. Hom. Ser. ii. Introd. p. vii. note, The Moral Ode being a ryming poem. |