?1775 W. Waring tr. J. J. Rousseau Dict. Music 346 The rhymic [Fr. La Rhythmique]..consists in knowing how to chuse, between the three modes established by the rhymopæa.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Rhymic, a term applied to that part of the ancient music which taught the practice and rules of movement and rhyme.

1985 Art Bull. 67 369/2 Michelangelo..creates a dynamic rhymic, in polarizing the elements around a main story measured like a seventh chord.

?1775 W. Waring tr. J. J. Rousseau Dict. Music 346 Certain passions have naturally a rhymic character [Fr. un caractère rhythmique], as well as a melodious one.

1777 W. Waring Last Day 14 in E. Young Night Thoughts II. The author excells with his usual superiority in the constrained sentiments of rhymic measure.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Rhymopœia. The part of the science of the ancient music which prescribed the laws of rhyme, and of whatever appertained to the rhymic art.

1849 M. Velazquez & T. Simmoné Ollendorff's New Method Learning Spanish Lang. 423 Your fine taste in the rhymic art [Sp. en el arte rítmica].

1883 M. N. Sherwood tr. A. Daudet L'Évangéliste xii. 203 She listened to a tumult of young voices, reciting in rhymic measure [Fr. en mesure]: ‘Who-is-equal-to-the-Eter-nal-in-the-Heavens? Who is like the Eternal?’ And taps with a ferule on a table, quickened or lengthened the measure.

1957 E. Hamilton Echo of Greece ii. 41 A genuine artist in Periclean days would never have allowed himself..to disobey the laws of rhymic harmony.

1978 V. Forrest-Thomson Poetic Artifice i. 31 In context, where the stressed initial syllable belongs to the previous foot, the secondary stress is not strong enough to compose a rhymic unit from the last three syllables.

2001 S. Wolosky Art Poetry 195 Usually there were four strong beats to a line, separated into two rhymic units by a middle pause, called a caesura.

1843 J. J. Jarves Hist. Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands iii. 62 The chief art lay in the formation of short metrical sentences, without much regard to their rhymic termination.

1881 Athenæum 15 Jan. 91/3 Verses whose rhymic majesty haunts the ear.

1889 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 7 517/2 The verbal, grammatical, and rhymic (why not rhymical?) inaccuracies to be met with in the Elegy.

1912 H. T. Henry Eucharistica vi. 240 Caswall disregards..the metre and the rhymic scheme of the original Latin.

1977 October 4 29 Words are combined into rhythmic, alliterative, or rhymic sequences because of their equivalence as pure sound.

2008 M. I. Ayish New Arab Public Sphere iii. 67 Arabic also possesses an elaborate system of affixes, which allows the language to be both rhymic and rhythmic.