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单词 rhyme
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rhymen.

Brit. /rʌɪm/, U.S. /raɪm/
Forms:

α. Middle English rym, Middle English ryym, Middle English–1500s rim, Middle English–1800s ryme, Middle English– rime, 1500s risme, 1600s ri'me; also Scottish pre-1700 rim, pre-1700 rime, pre-1700 rym, pre-1700 ryme.

β. 1500s–1800s rhime, 1600s– rhyme.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rime.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French rime, ryme correspondence of sound between the endings of two or more words or metrical lines (c1160; c1400 of rhyming effects in prose), rhymed verse (mid 13th cent.), (in plural) poetics, versification (c1405), of uncertain and disputed origin; perhaps (with loss of the medial consonant) < classical Latin rhythmus , rythmus rhythmus n., perhaps showing the sense development ‘accentual, non-quantitative verse’ (attested from the 8th cent.) to ‘accentual verse with rhyme’ to ‘rhymed verse, rhyme’, although it is notable that no forms are recorded in Old French showing preservation of the medial consonant; alternatively, perhaps a borrowing ultimately < the Germanic base of rime n.2, proceeding from the sense ‘series’ to ‘series of rhymed syllables’ to ‘rhymed verse’. It is clear that by the 16th cent. it was assumed that classical Latin rhythmus was related, since the β. forms arose as a result of association with the Latin word; compare also discussion of forms and pronunciation history at rhythm n., which partly shows a respelling of the present word by association with classical Latin rhythmus ; sense 4 apparently also results from the association between the two words, as do rhymical adj. 1, rhymic adj. 1, rhymopoeia n. Compare rhyme v.The French word is feminine, whereas both etymologies given above would suggest that it should be masculine. This discrepancy still lacks a satisfactory explanation. Compare Old Occitan rim , masculine (13th cent.) beside rima , feminine (12th cent.), and likewise Catalan rim , masculine (14th cent. or earlier) beside rima , feminine (13th cent. as rimes , plural); it is possible that the masculine forms show the original form and that the feminine forms may show secondary formations from either the masculine nouns or the corresponding verbs, although these assumptions have been disputed. Compare also the masculine gender of some of the nouns in Germanic languages listed below, although this could be explained in a number of different ways (not least association with the cognates of rime n.2). Compare also ( < French) Spanish rima (13th cent.), Portuguese rima (13th cent.), Italian rima (1303). Compare also (probably all ultimately < French) Old Frisian rīm , masculine (West Frisian rym ), Middle Dutch rime , feminine, rijm , masculine and feminine (Dutch rijm neuter), Middle Low German rīm , Middle High German rīm , masculine (12th cent.; German Reim ), Icelandic rím , neuter, Old Swedish rim , neuter (Swedish rim ), Old Danish rim , neuter (Danish rim ). For association of the Latin word with the Germanic word compare use of Latin rhythmus in the sense ‘number’ (c1000, 1549 in British sources). See rhythm n. II. for what are probably spelling forms of the present word, resulting from etymological remodelling after the (assumed) ultimate etymon classical Latin rhythmus , rythmus . Such forms are found from the second half of the 16th cent. Also found (sparingly) in the second half of the 17th cent. and (more frequently) after 1600 are the intermediate forms rhime and (after 1600) rhyme , which probably arose from a desire to distinguish between ‘rhyme’ and ‘rhythm’. Rhyme ultimately became established as the standard form (rhime was a frequent spelling till late in the 18th cent. and was favoured by some writers in the 19th cent., but rhyme is the prevailing literary form). The original spelling rime , however, persisted in use as a rarer variant, and in about 1870 its use was considerably revived, especially by writers on the history of the English language or its literature. To some extent this revival was due to the belief that the word was of native origin, and represented Old English rīm rime n.2 On the spelling ri'me in quot. 1607 at Phrases 2 see discussion at rhythm n.
1.
†a. Metre, measure (in verse). Obsolete.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) Ded. l. 44 Icc hafe sett her..maniȝ word. Þe rime swa to fillenn.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) Ded. l. 101 Himm bidde icc þatt het write rihht... Wiþþ all swillc rime alls her iss sett.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Job Prol. 42 Oþerwhile also þat sweete ryym [L. rithmus] & sweeteli sownyng is told with noumbris loosed with lawe.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 8625 (MED) To my sawe blame may be leyd, For foule englyssh and feble ryme Seyde oute of resun many tyme.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14922 (MED) Es resun þat wee vr rime rume, And set fra nu langer bastune.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 199 Symple as y had insight, somwhat þe ryme y correcte.
b. Correspondence of sound between the endings of two or more words or metrical lines such that the syllables involved carry identical vowel sounds and have (if present) identical final consonants. Also figurative.Rhyme, strictly speaking, is regarded as extending to the last stressed vowel and any sounds following it, whether within one word or more than one, in patterns such as female, feminine, male, masculine, rich, tailed rhyme, etc.; however, use of the word frequently includes various kinds of partial correspondence, as eye-, near-, off-, slant-rhyme, etc.: for these terms see the first element.The term is sometimes extended to include assonance and even alliteration (initial or head rhyme).
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c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) l. 260 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 352 (MED) Þat writ was puyr on Englisch i-write..And for-to tellen with-oute ryme [c1300 Harl. rym], þeos wordes it were, [etc.].
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 44 I kan nat geste, rom, ram, ruf, by lettre Ne god woot rym holde I but litel bettre.
c1450 (c1390) G. Chaucer Complaint of Venus (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 80 To me hit ys a grete penaunce Syth ryme in englissh hat such skarsete To folowe worde by worde the curiosite.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1562) 85 There was not a dosen sentences, in his whole Sermon, but thei ended all in rime, for the moste part.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2v Euen the very ryme it selfe, the Italian cannot put in the last silable, by the French named the Masculine ryme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the Female; or the next before that.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 7 Who first taught us..to make our Rime so properly a part of the Verse, that it should never mis-lead the sence.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 87 They wanted nothing but rime to be right Tom Triplet.
1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 157 The Anglosaxon poets..generally used measures without rime.
1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 53 We see evident marks of a fondness for Rime in the Hymns of S. Ambrosius and S. Damasus.
1833 S. Austin Characteristics Goethe II. 51 Wieland handled rime like a master.
1868 B. Thorpe Analecta Anglo-Saxonica 152 A Paraphrase of Job, xxi. xxx. Alliterative with final rime.
1970 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 69 438 Rime forces all final lifts in on-verse or off-verse into prominence.
β. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongerijmt, vnversed, or without Rhime.1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 35 For Rhyme the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they stear their courses.1674 A. Marvell On Paradise Lost in J. Milton Paradise Lost (rev. ed.) sig. A3v Thy Verse created like thy Theme sublime, In Number, Weight, and Measure, needs not Rhime.1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber v. 83 In Dryden's Plays of Rhime, he as little as possible glutted the Ear with the Jingle of it.1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. 174 The advantages of the initial rhime or alliteration.1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms I. 316 The vowel-rhime, or, as it is termed by French and Spanish critics, the assonant rhime, was common in the Romance of Oc.1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 433 Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English: a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.1871 E. A. Abbott Shakespearian Gram. (new ed.) §515 Rhyme was often used as an effective termination at the end of the scene.1917 A. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 115 Metre, cadence, and rhyme are some of the many ‘voices’ employed in ‘polyphonic prose’. Others are assonance, alliteration, and return.1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. ix. 86 The whole is musicked into tuneful rhyme, arresting conceit, and stirring meter.1996 Lit. & Ling. Computing 11 157/1 In the process the poem loses its rhyme, which results in weakening its musicality.
c. An instance of such correspondence of sounds; a word so corresponding in sound with another. single rhyme, double rhyme, triple (also treble) rhyme: a rhyme involving one, two, or three syllables respectively.
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α.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. F.i T'is not for want of will, That rudely thus in rymes I run, but want of better skill.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 36 I can finde out no rime to Ladie but babie, an innocent rime: for scorne, horne, a hard rime: for schoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings.
1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike sig. G6 Indeed I haue wished there were not that multiplicitie of Rymes as is vsed by many in Sonets.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iii. 10 As a man should run over the Alphabet, to start a rime.
1765 J. Elphinston Princ. Eng. Lang. Digested II. 357 The rime of the petty couplet is licentious as the stanza.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 232 May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of.
1887 F. J. Furnivall in R. Brunne's Chron. (Rolls) II. 587 The couples of rymes are entered alphabetically by the first word of the couple.
1891 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer I. iv. 375 There are tests resting upon the recurrence of assonant rymes.
1980 Stud. Philol. 77 75 The imperfect rime here suggests a corrupt reading.
β. 1625 R. Aylett Brides Ornaments iv. i. 11 With Cole from Altar let some Seraphine Touch my rude tongue, and set my braine on heate, The Glory of this Grace in loftie rhimes to sweate.1656 A. Cowley To Dr. Scarborough in Pindaric Odes Note ii. 2 Find, Refind: These kind of Rhymes the French..call Rich Rhymes; but I do not allow of them in English, nor would use them..at all without a third Rhyme to answer to both.1693 J. Dennis Miscellanies Pref. sig. b Mr. Dryden himself in his own Satyrs has sometimes made use of double and treble Rhymes.1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 21 While they ring round the same unvary'd Chimes, With sure Returns of still expected Rhymes.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Rhymes are either single, or double, or treble... Single Rhymes are divided into perfect or whole Rhymes; and imperfect or half Rhymes.1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 154 His rhymes are very often made by..unimportant words, which disappoint the ear.1836 J. Mitford in T. Gray Poet. Wks. I. p. cxv Such imperfect rhymes [beech: stretch] are not allowable in short and finished poems.1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 233/2 Such words as roaring, de-ploring, form double rhimes; and an-nuity, gra-tuity, triple rhimes.1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. iii. 73 Rhymes at the latter end of the xvith and during the xviith centuries are not of much use in determining sound, unless they are frequent..normal rhymes.1936 R. Riskin Mr. Deeds goes to Town in Six Screenplays (1997) 345 Whenever I run across a funny name, I always like to poke around for a rhyme.2002 Guardian 26 Oct. (Review section) 24/5 Poets like using a vague half-rhyme to get a faint effect of a rhyme, rather than a straight, up-front, in-your-face, perfect masculine rhyme.
d. figurative. Correspondence in sound, appearance, etc., between two things.
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1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 53 His erewhile timid lips grew bold, And poesied with hers in dewy rhyme.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 224 Of which he was as unaware as the blue river is of its rhyme with the blue sky.
1976 Time 20 Dec. 48/2 Its formal rigor—down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin—is intimidating.
1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Oct. 54/3 Or they become what might be called ‘visual rhyme’..in the sense of linkages that the eye discovers subsequently.
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a. A piece of poetry or verse in which the sound of the word or syllable at the end of each line corresponds with that at the end of another; a rhyming poem or piece of rhyming verse. Also in plural: verses, poetry.folk, game, nursery, tailed rhyme, etc.: see the first element.
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a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 74 (MED) Þis rym, mayde, ich þe sende open and wiþ-vte sel.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 74 Dane Felyp was mayster þat tyme Þat y began þys englyssh ryme.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 96 I speke in prose and lat him rymes make.
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 Renounce thy rymis.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 245 These songes or rymes..were called in Latin Fescennina carmina.
1568 Skelton's Workes sig. Iviiv Ye may heare now, in this Rhime [1548 ryme] How euery thing, must haue a time.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. Ev Libels are cast againe thee in the streete, Ballads and rimes, made of thy ouerthrow.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 28 Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast giuen her rimes, And interchang'd loue tokens with my childe. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 99 In the Sea townes of England they sing this English rime; Shoulder of mutton and English Beere, Make the Flemmings tarry here.
1699 S. Garth Dispensary iv. 46 Up these shelves, much Gothick Lumber climbs, With Swiss Philosophy, and Danish Rimes.
1737 Mem. Soc. Grub-St. I. 251 Here in British climes, Where in lewd prose, or luscious ballad rimes, Our poets write the sentiments of brutes.
1798 S. T. Coleridge (title) The rime of the ancyent marinere, in seven parts.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 40 The famous old Irish rime about St. Patrick.
1921 A. H. Bullen (title) Weeping-cross and other rimes.
1980 E. F. Bargainnier Gentle Art of Murder 169 Christie's fondness for employing nursery rimes as a structural device in her fiction has been often noted by critics.
β. a1529 J. Skelton Certayne Bokes (1548) sig. C.iiiiv Ye may here now in this ryme How euery thynge, must haue a tyme.1578 T. Blenerhasset 2nd Pt. Mirrour for Magistrates f. 80 Gore bloud running from his throate, wherein an headlesse Arrowe sticketh, through which wound, he ratleth out this Rhime.1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 494 These foure, a Monke..knit up within this Rhyme.1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 20 in Justa Edouardo King He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.1692 W. Temple Ess. Poetry in Miscellanea: 1st Pt. (ed. 3) iv. 339 With these Changes, the antient Poetry was wholly lost in all these Countries, and a new sort grew up by degrees, which was called by a new Name of Rhimes with an easy Change of the Gothick Word Runes, and not from the Greek, Rythmes, as is vulgarly supposed.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 87 Thus Roman Youth deriv'd from ruin'd Troy, In rude Saturnian Rhymes express their Joy. View more context for this quotation1751 T. Gray Elegy xx. 9 With uncouth rhimes and shapeless sculpture deck'd.1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 43 I made these rhimes into a duet for a new comic opera.1800 W. Wordsworth Hart-leap Well ii. 122 The Shepherd..that same story told Which in my former rhyme I have rehearsed.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam civ. 163 Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes . View more context for this quotation1900 Q. Rev. Oct. 354 The Moroccan has a jingling rhyme which he loves to repeat.1942 P. Larkin Let. 8 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 47 I have just made up a rhyme: After a particularly good game of rugger A man called me a bugger Merely because in a loose scrum I had my cock up his bum.1993 Spy (N.Y.) Dec. 35/2 Dr. Death..composes light-hearted rhymes he calls ‘glimmericks’.
b. Originally in African-American usage: a rap; a set of rap lyrics.
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1979 S. Robinson et al. Rapper's Delight (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 325 But whatever you do in your lifetime Ya never let a M.C. steal your rhyme.
1983 N.Y. Times 28 Aug. 60/4 A ‘freestyle’, in which rapping emcees traded improvised rhymes in a verbal jam session..brought out members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
1999 D. Century Street Kingdom i. 39 He'd isolate an instrumental break..and..provide K with a crackling bed on which to drop his rhyme.
1999 FEDS Mag. 1 iv. 35/1 I heard Pun spit a rhyme and I was bugging. I never heard a nigger rhyme like that.
2004 Touch Mar. 5/1 Dizzee will slow down his rhymes and Wiley will stop chattin bout London issues..just to please the American audience.
3. Poetry or verse marked by correspondence of terminal sounds; rhyming or rhymed verse. Also more generally: verse, poetry. rhyme doggerel: see doggerel adj. a. See also riding rhyme n.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 87 Off suilk an suld ȝe [mater] take,..Of hir to mak bath rim and sang.
1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. B8 v Thy blessed Gospell was in oure eares lyke a louers songe, it pleased vs for the ryme, but Alasse, oure lyues dyd nothynge agree with thy statutes.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 10v Chaucer satte in a chaire of gold..writyng prose & rime.
1580 T. Churchyard Light Bondell Disc. Ep. Ded. sig. ⋆iv v The nature of Rime is to reuiue the spirites, or moue a smile, when many a one is scarce pleasauntly disposed.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 66 b I am of this minde, that the making of rime shoulde not make a Poet use naughtie wordes.
c1600 G. Chapman Charlemagne (1920) i. i. 79 What! passyonate in rhyme; I must be taughte to give attendan[ce on] the full-fedd guest!
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cvi. sig. G3 Beautie making beautifull old rime, In praise of Ladies dead, and louely Knights. View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 11 I thought, if I could draw my paines Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay.
1636 P. Massinger Sero, sed Serio 7 I..bit my Star-crost pen Too busie in Stage-blanks, and trifeling Rime.
1664 J. Dryden Rival Ladies (1926) I. Ep. Ded. 27 The advantages which rhyme has over blank verse are so many, that it were lost time to name them.
1711 J. Greenwood tr. J. Wallis in Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. Pref. 19 The Lord's Prayer was..turn'd into Rhime, that the People might more easily learn..it.
1733 D. Mallet Of Verbal Crit. 142 To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 17 Dec. (1979) I. 559 I who scribble rhyme, To catch the triflers of the time.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 59 To make old prose in modern rhyme more sweet.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. v. 160 He makes no allusion to Scott as ever dabbling in rhyme.
1858 Building News 4 429/2 The language is poetical in precisely the same degree in which it is right... There was no such thing as a dialect for rhyme, or a language for verse.
1954 Ess. in Crit. 4 235 But MacNeice has tried mentalism and so raged against it..that he nearly knocked his brains out with rhyme.
1992 New Yorker 3 Feb. 37/2 He emerged as something like the Muhammed Ali of Presidential politics—not only in his fondness for prancing rhyme but as a spectacular and irrepressible virtuoso of ego.
†4. Rhythm, esp. in music. Obsolete.
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1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.ii Ryme is properly, the iust proportion of a clause or sentence, whether it be in prose or meeter, aptly comprised together.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 99 Plato informes us..the whole life of a virtuose man must be composed..of Symphonie or Concert and musical ryme.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Rhymopœia. The part of the science of the ancient music which prescribed the laws of rhyme.

Phrases

P1. in (also †on) rhyme: in verse, esp. rhyming verse.
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a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 513 In boke is ðe turtres lif writen o rime.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 466 (MED) Nouþer God ne alle his seintus willen heren men for no rabul of wordis ne curiouse florischynge in ryme.
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 3261 I ffynde In prose and ryme, Was non so strong In that tyme.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry 3 Thanne y made this boke, But y wolde not sette it in ryme.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 223/1 A foolish raylyng boke against the clergy, and much part made in ryme.
1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 189 Written in rime in the Country Dialect.
1802 J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës I. p. xviii There is, even, a Latin song in rime extant in print, which was made upon a great victory obtain'd by king Clothair the second.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxv. 589 Before the end of the twelfth century England had seen an English sermon in regular rime.
1964 G. Barker True Confession ii. iv. 58 I'm At heart one of those moral freaks Not satisfied that they exist Until they make a noise in rime.
1973 College Eng. 34 1062/2 ‘My Last Duchess’, where even the fact that the poem is in rime is almost unrecognizable.
β. 1603 P. Holland tr. Homer in tr. Plutarch Morals 1262 He sung withall the praise in rhyme of many a valiant knight.1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iv. i We will off in Rhime. There is no doubt, If Wat be not i'th Compter, he is out.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 3 But those that write in Rhime, still make The one Verse, for the others sake.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 16 Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick vii. 125 That the Hebrew Psalms were Originally written in Rhyme; but..the Words have been so transposed, that the Rhymes are generally lost.1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope Ded. p. v That the Epistles of Boileau in Rhyme, are no more poetical, than the Characters of Bruyere in Prose.1816 J. Mitford in T. Gray Poet. Wks. I. p. clii The difficulty of composing in rhyme in French plays, is a great cause of the pleasure which we receive in the composition.1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xx Whether in rhyme or blank-verse.1885 T. Watts in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 257/2 We listen to the poet—we allow him to address us in rhythm or in rhyme.1905 Q. Rev. July 8 To speak Miltonically, the Muse utters the oracle, and her ‘prophet’ renders it in rhyme.1991 Atlantic Feb. 22/3 What interests us here is the magical power of the imprecation delivered in rhyme—or, to be more precise, the enviable ability to curse in verse.
P2. In conjunction or contrast with reason, (chiefly in negative contexts) as without rhyme or reason, neither rhyme nor reason, etc.: expressing lack of good sense or reasonableness.For a possible earlier conjunction of rhyme and reason cf. quot. a14001 at sense 1a.
[Probably originally after Middle French ne rime ne raison, ni rime ni raison, literally ‘neither rhyme nor reason’, in similar expressions (from the 13th cent. in Old French). Compare also collocation of Old Occitan rima and razo, apparently with the meanings ‘poetic form’ and ‘content’, in the mid 12th cent.; such an opposition may well ultimately lie behind the Middle French and Middle English uses.
A connection is also often suggested with post-classical Latin metrum est ratio cum modulatione, rhythmus modulatio sine ratione ‘(poetic) metre is reason with modulation, rhythm is modulation without reason’ (5th cent. in a text on grammar), apparently shortened from the earlier metrum est ratio cum modulatione, rhythmus sine ratione metrica modulatio ‘(poetic) metre is reason with modulation, rhythm is modulation without metrical reason’ (4th cent. in a text on grammar), although the exact nature of the connection (if any) is unclear.]
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a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 199 As for ryme or reson, þe forewryter was not to blame, For as he founde hit aforne hym, so wrote he þe same.
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. lvii For appose her now of christ, as scripture testifieth of him, and thou shalt finde her clene without ryme or reason.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. xi. 108 Seeyng there is nether ryme ne reason in saing yt one eiuill spirite driueth out an other eiuil spirite.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone Prol. sig. A4v Here is ri'me, not emptie of reason.
1621 G. Hakewill King David's Vow 33 It is both ryme and reason.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 415 Against all the Laws of Prophetick Interpretation, nay indeed against all rhyme and reason.
1759 J. Wesley in Wks. (1872) IX. 109 If a man set upon me without either rhyme or reason.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 548/2 As long as the audiences of our large theatres are willing to tolerate outrages on rhyme and reason.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms II. xi. 181 This won't do. There's neither rhyme nor reason about it.
1935 M. McLuhan Let. 8 June (1987) 71 If property (in adequate amounts) has any value or rhyme or reason it is to provide the bases and bulwarks of liberty.
1973 W. Trevor Elizabeth Alone (1981) i. 9 She saw her life as something that was scattered untidily about, without a pattern, without rhyme or reason.
1996 Economist 2 Mar. 13/2 In cases such as Oklahoma City or the Baader–Meinhof gang in Germany in the 1970s terror may be used for no comprehensible rhyme or reason.

Compounds

C1.
a. (Sense 2a.)
(a)
† rhyme-composing adj. Obsolete
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1786 R. Burns Poems 213 Fareweel, ‘my rhyme-composing’ brither!
† rhyme-inspiring adj. Obsolete
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1779 E. Clark Misc. Poems 268 Celestial goddess! Rhyme-inspiring maid.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 342 Auld Reekie dings them a' to sticks For rhyme-inspiring Lasses.
† rhyme-proof adj. Obsolete
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1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 104 That I, henceforth, would be rhyme-proof Till my last breath.
(b)
† rhyme-hero n. Obsolete
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1867 J. W. Hales in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 272 Simon de Montfort was a most popular rhime-hero.
rhyme-maker n.
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1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Prydydd, a ryme maker.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rimatore, a Rimer, a Rime-maker.
a1690 G. Fox Jrnl. (1827) I. 95 One who was a common drunkard..and a rhyme-maker.
1752 G. A. Stevens Distress upon Distress Ep. Ded. p. xx Dulness (fast Friend to us Rhime-makers).
1892 Harper's Mag. Nov. 891/1 Vanity—it is perhaps the great fault of the rhyme-makers.
1992 D. Gefou-Madianou Alcohol, Gender & Culture vii. 120 They often invite the village barber—a good singer and guitar player whose father was a retsina producer and also a rhyme maker.
rhyme-making n.
ΚΠ
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) I. xxv. 143 A society for the reformation and improvement of the antient art and mystery of rhime-making.
1935 C. S. Lewis in Lysistrata May 22 Rude rime-making wrongs her beauty, Whose breasts and brow..Bewitch the worlds.
1991 Frontiers 12 187 They pass through various phases from the repeating of single notes to the phase of rhyme-making.
† rhyme-wright n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1591 A. Fraunce Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch i. ii. iii Neither Castalian Muses..Nor rymewright singers.
b. (Senses 1, 3.)
(a)
† rhyme-beginning adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1862 F. J. Furnivall Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) (Philol. Soc.) p. x A Rhyme-Beginning Fragment, or Specimen of Inverse Rhyme.
† rhyme-tagged adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1828 H. Neele Lit. Remains (1829) 48 The preference given to the rhyme-tagged prose of Hoole over the production of Fairfax.
† rhyme-unfettered adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 157 In rhyme-unfetter'd verse.
(b)
rhyme-analogy n.
ΚΠ
1930 A. W. Aron in Curme Vol. Linguistic Studies 19 By rhyme-analogy we mean the associational process by which the gender of a word is influenced by other words with similar suffixes or other similar endings.
rhyme-compulsion n.
ΚΠ
1923 R. Graves Feather Bed 17 Sacred Carnivals trundle through my mind, With Rhyme-compulsion mottoing each waggon.
rhyme-ending n.
ΚΠ
1881 tr. Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt in Littell's Living Age 19 Mar. 716 Our actions are like rhyme-endings (the game of bouts-rimés) which each of us tags together by what lines we please.
1887 F. J. Furnivall in R. Brunne's Chron. (Rolls) I. p. xx After some of the ryme-endings.
2002 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 62 326 The lines of this section are arranged on the basis of rhyme-endings.
rhyme-form n.
ΚΠ
1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. Jan. 99/2 There have been seasons wherein thought would only naturally crystallize in rhyme-form.
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 7 Rhyme-forms which have aroused H. G. Wells' anger, like roly-poly.
1981 G. S. Fraser Short Hist. Eng. Poetry iii. 37 The favourite French rhyme form of the octosyllabic couplet.
1998 ELH 65 863 The rhyme form is a token of the idea of passion.
† rhyme-index n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1877 W. W. Skeat Bruce in J. Barbour iv. 628 A complete Rime-index would occupy a considerable space.
† rhyme-law n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1873 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1871–2 12 561 The Rhyme-law of the Sonnet.
rhyme-sound n.
ΚΠ
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 272/1 While the second stanza..varies from the rest by running on four rhyme-sounds.
1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 26 A memory, clinging to the rhyme-sound.
2002 Speculum 77 1238 She..does not attempt to reproduce identical rhyme sounds in all stanzas.
rhyme-syllable n.
ΚΠ
1867 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 316/2 The toddaid (or melting metre)..is of two lines... The first line has a rhyme-syllable within it, and another rhyme syllable at its end.
1873 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 24/2 In cases where either rhyme-syllable begins with the accented vowel.
1977 Early Music 5 480/1 Each new stanza is clearly marked by that change of rhyme-syllable.
† rhyme-tag n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 231/2 Each canto ends with a rhyme-tag.
rhyme-type n.
ΚΠ
1945 C. L. Wrenn in Slavonic & East European Rev. 23 123 Both have sought..to preserve alike the rhythm and the rhyme-types of their originals.
C2.
rhyme-letter n. (a) (in early English alliterative verse) each of the alliterating initial letters in a line; (b) (in Arabic verse) the consonant letter that distinguishes the rhyme within a strophe or poem.
ΚΠ
1865 W. W. Skeat in G. G. Perry Morte Arthure p. xvi Of the strongly-accented syllables, three begin with a common letter, which has been called the rime-letter.
1896 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 16 63 The lines of an Arabic poem..are so written that the terminal letter..is repeated in unbroken succession down the page... A change in the rhyme-letter means accordingly a new poem (or strophe).
1909 Mod. Lang. Rev. 4 478 He had increased the normal number of rhyme letters every time an insignificant word happened to begin with the rhyme-letter.
1995 Asian Music 26 61 This concept of identifying a rhyme by the single consonant rhyme-letter (Arabic: rawîyy) is also found in the classical Arabic literary tradition.
rhyme scheme n. the ordered patterning of end-rhymes in poetry or verse.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > rhyme scheme
rhyme scheme1889
1889 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 51 318 In order to reproduce in English something equivalent to the effect of the terza rima, the following rhyme scheme, with divisions into stanzas of nine lines each, is employed.
a1931 E. Pound Make it New (1934) vii. 400 Where both Rossetti and I went off the rails was in taking an English sonnet as the equivalent for a sonnet in Italian. I don't mean in overlooking the mild difference in the rhyme scheme.
1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use viii. 192 This..is very emphatically signalled as some kind of new departure by a change in the rhyme-scheme.
1996 Lit. & Ling. Computing 11 159/1 Permutations can test readers' memory, adeptness at re-creating a poem from rhyme schemes, and understanding of the stanzas of a sonnet.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Dec. c8/1 His album..dealt with the song form of Puerto Rican back-country troubadours, and it had a preoccupation with..the décima, a 10-line stanza with specific rhyme schemes.
rhyme sheet n. a broadsheet printed with verses or other poetry (typically for display on a wall).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > broadsheet of verses
rhyme sheet1920
1920 (title) Rhyme sheet (Poetry Bookshop).
1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme i. 16 The archly-reproachful rhyme-sheets in bathrooms and lavatories.
1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree ii. 22 On the walls of our nursery, my mother had pinned rhyme sheets published by the Poetry Bookshop.
2003 N. M. Rice New Matrix for Modernism iv. 68 The Poetry Bookshop also published individual poems in illustrated rhyme-sheets, chapbooks, and broadsides.
† rhymes-ren n. [ren n.] Obsolete rare a poem; poetry.
ΚΠ
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1 Man og to luuen ðat rimes-ren Ðe wisseð wel ðe logede men Hu man may him wel loken.
rhyme-word n. any of two or more words in a verse which carry the rhyme.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > rhyme-word
rhyme1577
catchworda1764
respondent1804
rhyme-word1832
1832 Athenæum 6 Oct. 643/2 The remarks of Lewis are directed exclusively to the rhyme words, and not to the construction of the verse.
1893 H. Hupe in R. Morris Cursor Mundi 136* (note) There are three ryme-words, gnede, brede, shrede.
1943 C. L. Wrenn in Trans. Philol. Soc. 32 A glance at the apparatus, for instance, of any well-edited Middle English text will show how a study of the orthography of the rhyme-words in a poem..may point the way to an original reading.
1960 A. Clarke Horse-eaters 27 The nasal syllable in Houyhnhnm Brings rhyme-word.
1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 179 The end of each line is linked to the beginning of the next by the repetition of the rhyme-word.

Derivatives

rhyme-like adj.
ΚΠ
1957 N. Frye Sound & Poetry 125 Having rejected formal rhyme, he by no means avoids subdued rhymelike effects.
1987 Stud. Philol. 84 414 Adam thematically links the meaning of rhyme-like pairs of words.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rhymev.

Brit. /rʌɪm/, U.S. /raɪm/
Forms:

α. Middle English rym, Middle English–1800s ryme, Middle English– rime, late Middle English remedyn (plural past indicative, perhaps transmission error); also Scottish pre-1700 rym, pre-1700 ryme.

β. 1600s–1800s rhime, 1600s– rhyme.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rimer.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French rimer (French rimer ) (intransitive) to compose verse (c1120), to put (something) into verse (c1160), to constitute a rhyme (with another word) (1530), to rhyme (one word with another) (1548) < rime rhyme n. Compare Old Occitan rimar (12th or 13th cent. in senses ‘to compose verse’ and ‘to constitute a rhyme (with)’), Catalan rimar (1352), Spanish rimar (13th cent.), Portuguese rimar (13th cent.), Italian rimare (a1294), and also Middle Dutch rīmen (Dutch rijmen), Middle Low German rīmen, Middle High German rīmen (German reimen), Icelandic ríma, Old Swedish rima (Swedish rimma), Old Danish rime (Danish rime).On the spelling history see discussion at rhyme n. In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix).
1. intransitive. To compose rhymes or verses; to versify. Also with about, †of, on, upon.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose poetry [verb (intransitive)]
versec1000
rhymec1300
versify1377
makea1387
metrea1415
poetizea1586
compose1602
poetrize1602
sing1638
rhythm1655
poeticize1817
poesy1820
rune1832
α.
c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) l. 5 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 462 Ich nelle eov noþer rede ne rime of kyng ne of Eorl.
c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 509 I con not wonder wel ryme On latin ȝou to lere.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 532 I shal by-Iaped ben a þousand tyme More þan þat fol of whos folye men ryme.
c1430 (c1393) G. Chaucer Scogan (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 35 Lo olde grisil leste to ryme & pleye.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 104v To Ryme, rithmicare.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 201 Ȝit mycht thay be sa bald in thair bakbytting, To gar me ryme.
1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer vi. 488 Some be rymed on by drunken tossepottes, and so was Dauid.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 185 How vildely doth this Cynicke rime!
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 55 Will you Rime vpon't, And vent it for a Mock'rie?
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xlvii. 214 (heading) How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury.
1887 F. W. L. Adams Poet. Wks. 22 The poet ryming on his lady's eyes lips hair breast anything, what cares for her?
1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep viii. 152 He was aye rimin'..about this bonny countryside.
1939 D. Ferguson Pride & Passion: Robert Burns vi. 239 Though he might continue to assert that he rimed for fun, the fact was that..he was composing for publication.
β. 1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 147 But yet when they did ring, made a sweet chime, Especially when the Poet he did rhime.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 13 Palæmon shall be Judge how ill you rhime.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 30. ⁋3 For he that is not in love enough to rhime, is unqualified for our Society.1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 102 There march'd the bard..Who rhym'd for hire.1811 W. Scott Let. 26 Apr. (1932) II. 482 I am going to Ashestiel for eight days to fish and rhime.1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 112 His early rage Had force to make me rhyme in youth.1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 160 Musa rhymed and sang.1917 R. Graves Fairies & Fusiliers 43 Helter-Skelter John Rhymes serenely on, As English poets should. Old John, you do me good!a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 20 He intricately rhymes, to the music of crwth and pibgorn.
2.
a. transitive. To recount or celebrate in verse or rhyme; to put (a thought, etc.) into rhyme; to turn into, or compose in, rhyming verse.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)] > put into rhyme
rhyme1340
rimeyec1405
berime1801
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 99 Uor he ne heþ none hede of longe ryote of tales y-slyked ne y-rymed.
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 101 (MED) Þer-fore þys tale rymeþ Hou men in senne beþ.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 1370 Al the hole progenie Of goddes in that ilke time To long it were forto rime.
1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 8 Manaces of deth..maden..by certeyns Englishe billes rymed in partye.
J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 2191 My mastyr Chauncerys..With many prouerbys hys bokys..rymyd naturally.
?a1475 G. Banester Guiscardo & Ghismonda (BL Add.) l. 502 in H. G. Wright Tales from Decameron (1937) 30 Allace! thys sorow may nat welle be rymed.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 1 If ani..person..play in enterludes, sing or rime, any matter contrarie to the saide doctrine.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cclxij The worde of God is disputed, rimed, song and iangeled in euery Alehouse and Tauerne.
c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 171 §3 Ȝit spair I not to rym this ruid reply.
c1650 in D. Laing Var. Pieces Fugitive Sc. Poetry (1853) 2nd Ser. xxvi. 3/2 Oh! that I could speake Scotch,..I would rime out runges, and then I'd bange'um, His ribbes, and rigge [etc.].
?1665 T. Jordan Wit in Wildernesse of Promiscuous Poesie sig. †2v You swagger..Though against us your poetical head, Did rhime it so perversly.
1705 tr. A. Dacier in tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry xxvi. 456 A sharp Encounter, that had been wrong rimed, and no Custom had been sufficient to excuse it.
1728 L. Theobald Double Falshood i. iii. 11 I have read Stories..how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th'Abuse of Things Divine.
a1763 J. Byrom Remarks Horace in Poems (1894) I. 506 While I'm riming to you what comes next, I shall forget th' Acrisius of the Text.
1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 319 I rhyme my thoughts without an aim.
1870 W. J. Courthope Paradise of Birds 76 Let others rhyme the unborn time, I sing the Obsolete.
1887 Q. Rev. 164 389 He rimed history, ballads and legends.
1946 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 90 136/1 In the nineteenth song of the endless Poly-Olbion he rhymed the immortality of Frobisher.
1986 A. Codrescu Comrade Past & Mister Present 19 So many were rhyming the world in their heads even on their back & in bandages.
†b. transitive. To brave (a matter) out in rhyming terms. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > maintaining or upholding as true > maintain or uphold as true [verb (transitive)] > in rhyming terms
rhyme1532
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 496/1 Tindall rymeth it out, & saith yt he both denieth and also defieth, that the apostles taught any ceremony wherof the reason could not be knowen.
3.
a. intransitive. Of a word, line, etc.: to form or act as a rhyme with (also †to) (another word). Also: (of more than one word or line) to form a rhyme with each other (also with together).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)]
rhymec1425
α.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 657 (MED) Þouȝ þe termys in englisch wolde ryme, To rekne hem alle I haue as now no tyme.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. ii. f.19v An ignoraunt Asse..ended the first verse of a Sonnet, with this worde Ersiglia, and to rime with that in the fourth verse, hee put Vriglia, and in the next following Striglia.
1584 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 70 That ȝe make not proue and reproue ryme together.
1597 H. Lok Sundry Christian Passions Ded,. in Ecclesiastes sig. Iviv The latter columbe hauing the words placed counterchangeably to rime to the whole square.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 163 He who craves all the minde, And all the soul, and strength, and time, If the words onely ryme, Justly complains.
1825 S. Turner Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. ii. 400 It only remains to make a few observations on that form of verse called Leonine, in which the middle of every line rimes with its termination.
1882 W. W. Skeat Guest's Hist. Eng. Rhythms (rev. ed.) 621 The simplest kind of bob-wheel consists of the bob, and a long verse following, and riming [1838 rhiming] with it.
1906 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 21 649 As far as my comprehension goes, it rimes only with words like entendre.
1987 R. E. Duncan Ground Work II 70 In the poem ‘light’ and ‘right’ riming with ‘time’.
2000 L. Flint Shakespeare's Third Keyboard ix. 177 The final word..seems to exist merely because it rimes.
β. 1665 J. Davies tr. A. de Castillo Solórzano La Picara iii. 296 I have another reason, why I do not call her Lady, but Seignoress, which is, that it rhimes with Princess.1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd in Wks. II. 130 I brought you authority enough to prove that ‘schism’ do's at least rhime to ‘ism’.1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 132. ⁋7 The Couplet where a-Stick rhimes to Ecclesiastick.1750 W. Dodd New Bk. Dunciad 24 There is no conjecturing who this bard may be, there being such a number of words rhyming to spoke.1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres III. iv. iii. 237 The two first verses of the tercet rhyme together, and the disposition of the four last is arbitrary.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wood, mad, rhyming with food.1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) x. 96 The word Peg invariably rhyming to leg.1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 233/2 Be-low..rhimes with fore-go, or with O! but not with lo.1908 L. Strachey Corr. with Virginia Woolf (1956) 13 Do you really live in Trevose House? Rhyming to nose?1934 Speculum 9 8 Paroxytonic and proparoxytonic verses could rhyme together indiscriminately.1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. iv. 360 ‘Van’, rhyming with and indeed signifying ‘one’ in Marina's double-you-less deep-vowelled Russian pronunciation.1993 Beaver Oct. 53/3 I had hoped he would include the Nova Scotian way of pronouncing ‘aunt’, to rhyme with ‘taunt’ and ‘father’ to rhyme with ‘lather’.
b. intransitive. figurative. To agree, accord; to have a form that corresponds with something.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)]
accord1340
cord1340
concordc1374
agree1447
to stand togetherc1449
rhyme?a1475
commonc1475
gree?a1513
correspond1529
consent1540
cotton1567
pan1572
reciprocate1574
concur1576
meet1579
suit1589
sorta1592
condog1592
square1592
fit1594
congrue1600
sympathize1601
symbolize1605
to go even1607
coherea1616
congreea1616
hita1616
piece1622
to fall in1626
harmonize1629
consist1638
comply1645
shadow1648
quare1651
atonea1657
symphonize1661
syncretize1675
chime1690
jibe1813
consone1873
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 227 Two smale legges And a gret body, þow it ryme nowth.
1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xxi. 129 Cecilia read, from a volume she had brought with her, poems that rhymed with the running water.
1883 Daily News 17 May 6/1 She too often wears it indiscriminately with all her dresses, whether it ‘rhymes’ with them or not.
1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 105 Again and again, as the days passed, he had had a sense of the pertinence of communicating quickly with Woollett—communicating with a quickness with which telegraphy alone would rhyme.
1972 Sci. Amer. Mar. 100/3 Again in the case of the earth it rhymed satisfactorily with Tycho's theory: the maximum discrepancy was 34 seconds of arc.
1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–1945 vi. 204 Simple figural gestures—standing, coming, going, turning—rhymed with each other across the pictorial space.
c. intransitive. Of a word, metrical line, verse, etc.: to exhibit or contain rhyme; to contain or (esp.) terminate with a series of similar or exactly corresponding sequences of sound. Also with rhyme scheme as complement.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)]
to lie in, withina1400
rhymec1586
c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 149 (heading) Ane new sort of rymand rym, Rymand alyk in rym and rym, Rymd efter sort of guid Rob Steine.
1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 245 Regard to order of Words and sounds which makes Verses ryme.
1668 S. Simmons in J. Milton Paradise Lost (rev. ed.) To Rdr. sig. A2 A reason of that which stumbled many others, why the Poem Rimes not.
1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 13 He..Faggoted his Notions as they fell, And if they Rhim'd and Rattl'd all was well.
1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. 381 Eight lines of Heroics; the six first rhyming alternately.
1914 G. Warrack Folk Songs of Tuscan Hills p.v Of the verse-form which belongs to the Sicilian equivalent of the Rispetto, the Canzona or Strambotto, an octave of lines alternately rhyming, there is said to be only one example amongst the Tuscan poems.
1926 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 41 818 It consists of a frons of four lines, riming aaaa.
1970 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 69 439 It would have been possible to use [in the Old English Riming Poem] some of the oral formulae of other elegies and add a second half-line that rimed.
1982 R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. 133 Byron's ‘Childe Harold’ is written in a stanza of nine iambic lines rhyming ababbcbcc, with the first eight lines in pentameter, the last line in hexameter; this is also called a Spenserian stanza.
2002 Guardian 2 Nov. (Review section) 25/1 Years ago, when poems rhymed and the weekend Guardian contained no advice on fashion or houses to buy.
4.
a. transitive. To put (a composition) into a metrical form, usually one that has lines which terminate in rhymes; to give a rhyme to (a line).
ΚΠ
?1567 Def. Priestes Mariages Pref. f. 16 The verse is so terrible, I list not to rime it.
1624 A. Holland Continued Inquisition 3 in J. Davies Scourge Paper-persecutors Others dare venter a diuiner straine, And Rime the Bible, whose foule Feet profane That holy ground.
1651 Bp. H. King Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cclxv. 567 The Other [translation of the Psalms] as flat and poor, as lamely worded, and unhandsomly rhimed as the Old.
1688 T. Jones Y Gymraeg yn ei Disgleirdeb: Dict. Welsh & Eng. Awen-gerdd, cerdd gyson, A Poem well rhymed.
1695 tr. A. Galland Remarkable Sayings Eastern Nations 30 All the Poets of any note amongst them, make a Series of Gazels rhimed by Alphabetical Order.
1727 tr. Voltaire Ess. Civil Wars France 127 All our Tragedies ought to be rhimed.
1734 J. Richardson & J. Richardson Explanatory Notes Paradise Lost p. cxx Dryden had some Years before Rim'd Milton in his State of Innocence, Tagg'd his Lines.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 9 June 177 What can be more absurd..than that part of a Play should be rhymed, and part written in blank verse?
1898 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. (1905) 737 These rolling quatrains, rhymed as a rule a a b a,..but sometimes monorhymed throughout.
1901 J. Hall K. Horn p. li The poem extends to 5,250 alexandrines rhymed in tirades.
1918 C. E. Andrews Writing & Reading of Verse xiv. 239 He rimed his epodes, which are longer than Gray's, in couplets or quatrains.
1933 D. Thomas Let. Nov. (1987) 40 In two out of three poems I have sent you, there has been a steady scheme of consonantal rhyming. The ‘Eye of Sleep’ is rhymed throughout. I never use a full rhyme, but nearly always a half rhyme.
2009 New Yorker 25 May 26/1 Right now I may have to freestyle a speech, but at least I don't have to rhyme the speech or keep on the beat, which back then was tough for me.
b. transitive. To cause (a word) to rhyme (with another); to use as a rhyme. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > make alike or analogous
to season with the same liquor1648
connaturalize1668
assimilate1785
homologize1811
rhyme1824
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)] > cause to rhyme
rhyme1824
chime1878
1824 John Bull Mag. 1 158 The title pleases me much more than Lambert's Genus Pinus, A word which comes most luckily for me to rhyme with finis.
1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. iii. 117 Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike.
1887 F. J. Furnivall in R. Brunne's Chron. (Rolls) II. 587 Robert Mannyng..wrote poraille as porayl, and rymed it with sayl or sail.
1901 M. B. Smith tr. B. ten Brink Language & Metre of Chaucer (ed. 2) iv. 234 Chaucer's method may briefly be stated as follows: he rimes long vowels with long ones.., short vowels with short ones.
1946 Y. Winters Edwin Arlington Robinson v. 79 The lines read as if they ought to be rimed and were left unrimed through an oversight.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 32 Holding the bread-knife poised over cottage loaf, barmbrack or soda-bread, Uncle Willie ejaculates the word pain, rhyming it with ‘rain’.
2002 New Yorker 14 Oct. 54/1 It takes us back to that period in English letters when..a story had sweep and flourish, and all the stray subplots were gathered up and ‘rhymed’.
5. transitive. With object and adverbial phrase or complement.
a. To bring (a person, etc.) to a particular state or condition through rhymes or verses. Chiefly in to rhyme to death: to destroy (a person or animal) with verses; (figurative) to destroy the reputation of (a person) in verse, to pester with verses.Originally with reference to the alleged destruction of rats in Ireland by incantation; for this exact legend earlier documentation in Irish or of direct Irish origin seems to be lacking, but the formidable reputation of the filid or bards for satirical and magical versifying is well established.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > rhyme to death, into favour, etc.
to rhyme to death1579
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)] > in writing
to rhyme to death1681
to write down1726
α.
1579 T. Churchyard Gen. Rehearsall Warres sig. D.iiv These Rimars..were..spoiled and whipped, and banished the toune, which Rimars swore to Rime these gentlemen to death.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xv. 64 They will not sticke to affirme, that they can rime either man or beast to death.
?1589 Whip for an Ape sig. A4 I am a rimer of the Irish race, And haue alreadie rimde thee staring mad. But if thou ceasest not thy bald iests still to spread, Ile neuer leaue, till I haue rimde thee dead.
1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll ii. sig. C4 Garrs blurr he ryme de grand Rats fro my house.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 157 These fellowes of infinit tongue, that can ryme themselues into Ladyes fauours.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 296 And rymed themselves beyond reason, into absurdities, and heresies.
1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers v. ii. 72 My Poets Shall with a Satyre steep'd in gall and vineger, Rime 'um to death, as they do rats in Ireland.
1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple i Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Ryme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure.
1875 H. Ellison Stones from Quarry 118 Some have been rimed to death; some killed outright By shrewd Iambics.
1916 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 258/1 ‘Riming’ people to death—a practice used by the filid as well as by the druids—was connected with the power of the spoken word.
1969 J. Wainwright Big Tickle 166 He'll rime you—you lousy git—he'll rime you to ribbons.
β. 1656 R. Flecknoe Diarium iv. 21 Then as in Ireland they do, Rhyme Rats to death with verse or two, So'll I thee, if Art don't faile.1659 (title) Ratts rhimed to death, or, the Rump-Parliament hang'd up in the Shambles.1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 147 Assist with malice, and your mighty aid My sworn Revenge, and help me Rhime her dead.1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 68 A friend of mine, that..might do this man the same favour, and in the same style Rhime him into immortality.1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 3 Lying Bards; who riding upon the ridges of Metaphors and Allegories, have rhimed you into the Belief of lying incomprehensible Perplexities.1735 A. Pope Satires of Donne ii, in Wks. II. 22 Songs no longer move, No Rat is rhym'd to death, nor Maid to love.1865 Catholic World July 475/2 The age when every Celt in Kerry piously believed that a man, if the metre were only made sufficiently acrid, might be rhymed to death.1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lxii. 91 Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time.1986 P. Mora Borders 39 I say oh dear, what can the matter be but I know. I know. No rhyming these old man-woman bruises away.1991 Creem Apr. 100/2 Often the performance was more like a duel with artists trying to rhyme each other to death with stinging insults known as ‘picong’.
†b. To pass away (time) in rhyming. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)] > compose (rhymed verses) > spend time in
rhyme1837
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers I. i. v. 53 He would..rhyme or read away the long evenings.
6. intransitive. To use rhyme; †to find or provide a rhyme to (also at) (a word) (obsolete). Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > use rhyme
rhyme1584
jingle1642
1584 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 70 That ȝe ryme ay to the hinmest lang syllable, (with accent) in the lyne.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 273 You might haue rym'd.
1660 W. Yolkney Speech to Gen. Monck (single sheet) This was the Rumpin, Thumpin, Rumpin Rump, To Rhyme to which, my Wits I'm forc'd to Pump.
1675 E. Phillips Theatrum Poetarum (new ed.) Pref. **4 The Dissyllable, which in that Language is the only way of Riming.
1692 J. Dennis in tr. Ovid Passion of Byblis Pref. sig. C My Lord Roscommon who writ in blank Verse with so much success, yet was nicely exact in Riming, whenever he pretended to rime.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 9 June 177 By what acquisition of faculties is the Speaker who never could find rhymes before, enabled to rhyme at the conclusion of an Act?
1797 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) I. viii. 263 Mr. Jenkinson's name..being proposed as a difficult one to rhyme to.
1805 G. Huddesford Les Champignons du Diable iii. 110 Good Elisha, Israel's primate: (A cramp word, by the by, to rhyme at).
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 268 They had ascertained that the Arabian poets rhymed.
?1912 Northern Skies 8 He rhymes in fourteen, or in six, or in eight, Or not at all, in epics of state.
1931 H. Lanz Physical Basis of Rime v. 176 Hence he [sc. the poet] rimes, i.e., repeats the sound which he considers properly expressive.
1973 M. Rukeyser Coll. Poems (1978) 515 The forms of poetry are his time and space. He's quirky, he rhymes like daily life.
7.
a. transitive. To compose (a verse, a rhyme, lines, etc.). Also with out.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)] > compose (rhymed verses)
rhyme1871
1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 124 Who so rhymes a sonnet pays a tax.
1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. xxviii. 289 He..rhymed out sonnets in her praise.
1917 W. B. Yeats Wild Swans at Coole (1919) 25 Edit and annotate the lines That young men..Rhymed out in love's despair.
1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 65 His song and the way he rimed it out.
2003 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 Dec. b3 At St. Michael's Hospital last night, Tejay McDonald..rhymed a eulogy for his fallen friend.
b. transitive. U.S. In African-American use: to improvise (a blues composition or blues lyrics). With up.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > improvise
improvisoa1768
vamp1789
improvise1858
mess1926
busk1934
rhyme1939
jam1955
1939 C. ‘Kingfish’ Smith in A. Banks First-person Amer. (1980) 240 A song like this I'd just look on the wagon and rhyme up something to match it.
1959 S. Charters Country Blues vi. 97 Rabbit Brown was popular around the district because he could sing all the songs, and he could ‘rhyme-up’, little songs about customers in the saloons, using their names.
1966 ‘Howlin' Wolf’ in Newsweek 21 Feb. 91 It's just low-down, gut-bucket blues, the old common music... I just rhyme up a good back-rail sound.
1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues 16 Blues singers pride themselves on their ability to ‘rhyme up a song’ but they do not consider this an essential requirement of their music.
1997 Y. Rachell in R. Congress Blues Mandolin Man (2001) 80 It come to me when I play. Rhyme up in my mind, way it used to do.
2005 P. Guralnick Dream Boogie 20 Sam's [sc. Sam Cook's] ability to rearrange verses or rhyme up familiar Bible stories to make a song was not lost on any of them.
c. intransitive. Originally in African-American usage: to perform a rap; = rap v.2 8d. Cf. rhyme n. 2b.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique
descanta1450
to stay on1579
to run division1590
divide1609
shake1611
flourish1766
tweedle-dee1837
slide1864
Wagnerize1866
to break a chord1879
magadize1904
scoop1927
segue1958
rap1979
rhyme1979
scratch1982
1979 N.Y. Amsterdam News 20 Oct. 34/2 Three motor-mouthed disc jockeys ‘do their vocal thing’ as they rhyme in double time.
1986 M. Diamond et al. Rhymin' & Stealin' (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 14 We drink and rob and rhyme and pillage.
1994 Vibe Mar. 41/3 The oh-so-liberal observers who sang Cube's praises when he was rhyming about niggas killing niggas and smackin' up bitches.
2002 E. Simmons E.A.R.L. (2003) xlii. 255 I walked into the studio room alone. As soon as he saw me, the kid who was rhyming at the time turned his head.

Phrases

† Proverb. it may rhyme but it will not accord (and variants). Obsolete.
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c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 793 (MED) To make a shippard of a wielde lyoun, It may wele ryme, but it accordith nought.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 691/2 That same may ryme well, but it agreeth nat.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiiiv To disdeigne me,..it may ryme but it accordth not.
1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 510 It may rhyme, but it will not accord.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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