rhythmicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈrɪðmɪk/, U.S.

/ˈrɪðmɪk/

Forms: 1600s rhythmicke, 1600s rhythmike, 1600s rythmique, 1600s–1700s rhythmick, 1700s–1800s rythmic, 1700s– rhythmic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rythmique; Latin rhythmicus.

Etymology: < French rythmique, †rhythmique of, relating to, involving, or concerned with rhythm (1520 or earlier in Middle French) and its etymon classical Latin rhythmicus of or concerned with rhythm, in post-classical Latin also rhythmical, measured, cadenced (4th cent.), composed in verse or rhyme (from 12th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ῥυθμικός set to time, rhythmical, of or for rhythm < ῥυθμός rhythmus n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier rhythmical adj. In use as noun after French rythmique, †rhythmique (a1358 in Middle French as rithmique ); compare also earlier rhythmica n. and Latin and Greek forms cited at that entry. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (ri·þmik) /ˈrɪθmɪk/: see discussion at rhythm n.

A. adj.

1. Of, relating to, involving, or concerning rhythm; = rhythmical adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective]

rhythmic1603

rhythmicala1620

rhymical1684

rhymic?1775

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1259 All the Rhythmike skill [Fr. toute la science rhythmique].

1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 48 307 So insufficient seems an individual life for so much rhythmic effusion.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 243/1 A musical composition is made up of portions of equal rhythmic value, called measures.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 145 Its most rhythmic genius, its acutest intellect.

1924 J. 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.

1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1406/3 His rhythmic strategy meant that he retained the option of vers libre.

1991 Music & Lett. 72 71 A rhythmic analysis would identify the places in a line where stresses fall and where syllables are lightened, and would pick out the patterns formed by sequences of stress and relaxation.

a. Of language, verse, music, etc.: characterized by rhythm; composed rhythmically, written in verse as opposed to prose; having a pleasant or flowing rhythm; = rhythmical adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective]

numbrousa1586

numerous1589

rhythmical1589

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

numerical1749

rhythmal1812

rhythmopoetic1908

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion

mensuralc1570

numerous1589

numeral1610

measurable1614

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

mensurable1776

measured1782

lilting1800

rhythmic-melodic1854

rhythmized1880

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 175 Those heavenly Poets which did see Thy will, and it expresse In rythmique feet.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. p. liii We are told that till the middle of the eleventh century rythmic [sic] or mensurable music was not known.

1788 Analyt. Rev. Nov. 338 That the Rhythmic Edda, although more ancient than the other, should have remained so long unnoticed.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 105 Much of it, too,..is rhythmic; a kind of wild chaunting song.

1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 95 The portion of time thus marked off by an intension and a remission of effort is a rhythmic foot.

1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form i. 2 The power and importance of symmetry and Rhythmic balance.

1889 F. W. Farrar Lives Fathers I. iii. 96 (note) The words are rhythmic. They consist of two sonorous epitrites.

1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. ii. xxxi. 129 In order to sing to the chug of a rattle or the tap of a drum, the song must be rhythmic.

1973 Black World Mar. 26 A stock feature of chanted sermons: the highly rhythmic, imaginative and improvisational rendering of the Word of God.

1991 Discover Mar. 80/2 (advt.) You will learn the language as stresslessly as a child does, by hearing new vocabulary and phrases in alternately loud whispered, and emphatic intonations, all accompanied by slow, rhythmic music.

b. Of an action, movement, sound, event, etc.: that has a marked or recurrent pattern; regularly occurring; that generates a rhythm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured

measurable1569

rhythmetic1603

measured1604

cadent1613

rhythmicala1620

rhythmic1773

cadenceda1790

rhythmetical1801

rhythmed1832

1773 R. Graves Love of Order i. 19 Observe with what harmonic Grace Your Barber traverses your Face; Whole Razor, with true Rhythmic Art, In nimble Dactyls plays its Part.

1839 N.Y. Rev. Jan. 177 By proper instruments the very cataract might be made to jump with unknown joy, and the rain to fall in rhythmic measure.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. ii. 39 But presently the rhythmic movement of the oars attracted her.

1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 ii. 91 The cataract..plunging in rhythmic gushes down the shining rocks.

1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xxiv. 206 The rhythmic rattling of the train.

1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 3 A dozen Italian workmen..tramping in rhythmic stride.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 138 The..rhythmic plash of the wavelets on the beach.

1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xii. 177 The rhythmic swish of the dancers sounded like a swirling pool.

1957 L. T. C. Rolt Isambard Kingdom Brunel iv. 53 The rhythmic tread of a company of troops marching over the Broughton bridge.

1996 C. Brookmyre Quite Ugly One Morning ii. 7 Parlabane came round slowly, his senses kicking in one at a time behind the steady, rhythmic throb of his headache.

c. Physiology. Of the heartbeat, breathing, or other physiological process: recurring at regular intervals, periodic. Cf. rhythm n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > system > [adjective] > organ > types of functions

occult1651

systolic1653

rhythmic1826

rhythmical1829

involuntary1840

1826 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 26 430 The alternate contractions of the auricles and ventricles take place in the following rhythmic succession.

1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. xiii. 399 The intestines do not creep through their rhythmic movements.

1953 H. Mellanby Animal Life in Fresh Water (ed. 5) vii. 107 The long dorsal heart stands out beautifully and its rhythmic contraction can be watched.

1980 Lancet 16 Feb. 346/2 The mucus is swept over the epithelial surface by the rhythmic beating of myriads of cilia which project from the surface of the cells.

2006 B. L. Bardakjian in J. D. Bronzino Biomedical Engin. Fund. (ed. 3) vi. 6 The electrical rhythmic activity of the small intestine behaves like a system of coupled relaxation oscillators.

d. figurative. That harmonizes or coheres; that constitutes a regular or repeated pattern.

ΚΠ

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 177 The great salient points are admirably seized; all rounds itself off, into a kind of rhythmic coherence.

1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 89 A theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say, the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.

1874 L. Morris Songs of Two Worlds 2nd Ser. 171 Not all of life Is rhythmic; oft by level ways We walk.

1949 Art Bull. 31 194 They both move away from the sensitive emotion and fluid, rhythmic cohesion of Filippino Lippi's art.

1978 Lancs. Life Sept. 56/4 And there are the stolid, stonebuilt houses and mills for spinning, weaving and dyeing, giving a complementary angularity to the rhythmic forms of the surrounding hills.

1990 J. Hamilton Rackham iii. 65 When a posed composition succeeds..Rackham skilfully integrates figures and furnishings to make a harmonious, rhythmic whole.

3. Geology. Exhibiting or characterized by periodicity in sedimentary deposits or deposition (cf. rhythm n. 5b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [adjective] > rhythm

rhythmic1895

1895 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 122 The average thickness of the rhythmic couple, limestone and shale, is as before, eighteen inches.

1914 C. B. Crampton et al. Geol. of Caithness ix. 89 In the Helman Head Beds the rhythmic sequence is confined to continental, alluvial, and lacustrine deposits.

1960 F. J. Turner & J. Verhoogen Igneous & Metamorphic Petrol. (ed. 2) xi. 292 Gravitational settling of heavy dark minerals within the layer of mush carpeting the floor..is thought to be responsible for the rhythmic layering so widely prevalent in the lower levels.

2008 T. McCann Geol. Central Europe I. 227/2 The base of the formation is established by the rapid appearance of rhythmic sedimentation with fine-grained sandstones.

†B. n.

Chiefly with the. The science or theory of rhythm. Cf. rhythmica n., rhythmics n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > [noun] > of rhythm

rhythmicaa1398

rhythmic1603

rhymic?1775

rhythmics1833

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > prosody > metrics

metric1480

rhythmic1603

stichology1737

metre1786

metrology1889

metrics1892

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1260 Neither the Harmonique, nor the Rhythmicke [Fr. la rythmique], nor any one of these faculties of Musicke, which is named particular.

1740 tr. F. Juvenel de Carlencas Hist. Belles Lettres 201 The Rhythmick gave Rules for all the Sounds, as also for all the Motions of the Body.

1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 730 To harmonic, rhythmic, and metric, in the theoretic, respectively answered melopœïa, rhythmopœïa, and poetic, in the practic.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Metric The metric differed from the rhythmic in that the former was only used in the form of the verses, while the second was confined to the feet of which they are composed.

1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 94 The classical rhythmic of Pindar, Simonides, Æschylus.

1879 J. W. White tr. J. H. H. Schmidt (title) An Introduction to the Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages.

Compounds

C1. Appositive, as rhythmic-melodic adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion

mensuralc1570

numerous1589

numeral1610

measurable1614

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

mensurable1776

measured1782

lilting1800

rhythmic-melodic1854

rhythmized1880

1854 G. Macirone tr. A. B. Marx Gen. Musical Instr. 127/2 The master will prescribe very simple lessons of determined rhythm, and then make rhythmic–melodic variations on them [Ger. und dann dieselben rythmisch-melodisch variiren].

1893 W. A. Ellis tr. R. Wagner Prose Wks. II. 78 Even in Opera nothing else had been possible to the Orchestra, when accompanying pantomimic movements, but that tied-down, banal rhythmic-melodic expression.

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 55 Repeated rhythm patterns and rhythmic-melodic patterns..such as are characteristic of boogie-woogie and blues piano.

2004 Acta Musicologica 76 270 The piano states its rhythmic-melodic motive X once.

C2.

rhythmic breathing n. breathing occurring at a regular rate or in a particular rhythm, esp. as a result of voluntary control of the respiratory muscles.

ΚΠ

1850 L. Mason & G. J. Webb Cantica Laudis 21/1 The practice of breathing at a particular part of the measure, or of rhythmic breathing, should be avoided.

1919 Lancet 20 Dec. 1126/2 In order to induce quiet rhythmic breathing when an attack [of asthma] was threatened I made her see a mental picture of her little boy and girl on a seesaw.

2007 N.Y. Mag. 16 July 28/3 Laurie and Jerry have been exploring a therapy called ‘holotropic breathwork’—a hypnotic technique using rhythmic breathing and music.

rhythmic gymnast n. a person who performs rhythmic gymnastics.

ΚΠ

1924 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Republican 28 Feb. 16 (advt.) Monsieur Bon Homme. Premiere rhythmic gymnast.

1988 P. Aykroyd Puffin Bk. Gymnastics xv. 125 As in artistic gymnastics, the rhythmic gymnast performs on a 12m-square floor mat.

2007 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 2 June 12 It takes about six to eight years before a rhythmic gymnast is ready to consider a run at the Olympics.

rhythmic gymnastics n. (with singular and plural agreement) gymnastics performed in a rhythmical manner, esp. incorporating dance-like routines and performed with ribbons, hoops, or other accessories, often as a competitive sport; cf. eurhythmic n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > specific type

rhythmic gymnastics1908

floor exercise1957

1908 C. A. Scott Social Educ. xi. 264 Speeches were made, followed by an exercise in rhythmic gymnastics.

1912 Standard 27 Nov. 9/5 Eurythmics [sic] is a word which Professor Jacques-Dalcroze has invented to describe his ‘rhythmic gymnastics’.

1967 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 25 294/2 The movement of rhythmic gymnastics which soon merged with the dance as an art.

2003 P. David Human Rights in Youth Sport xvi. 205 Discrimination also exists against boys and men in rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rhythmic
释义	rhythmicadj.n. Brit. /ˈrɪðmɪk/, U.S. /ˈrɪðmɪk/ Forms: 1600s rhythmicke, 1600s rhythmike, 1600s rythmique, 1600s–1700s rhythmick, 1700s–1800s rythmic, 1700s– rhythmic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rythmique; Latin rhythmicus. Etymology: < French rythmique, †rhythmique of, relating to, involving, or concerned with rhythm (1520 or earlier in Middle French) and its etymon classical Latin rhythmicus of or concerned with rhythm, in post-classical Latin also rhythmical, measured, cadenced (4th cent.), composed in verse or rhyme (from 12th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ῥυθμικός set to time, rhythmical, of or for rhythm < ῥυθμός rhythmus n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier rhythmical adj. In use as noun after French rythmique, †rhythmique (a1358 in Middle French as rithmique ); compare also earlier rhythmica n. and Latin and Greek forms cited at that entry. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (ri·þmik) /ˈrɪθmɪk/: see discussion at rhythm n. A. adj. 1. Of, relating to, involving, or concerning rhythm; = rhythmical adj. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] rhythmic1603 rhythmicala1620 rhymical1684 rhymic?1775 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1259 All the Rhythmike skill [Fr. toute la science rhythmique]. 1819 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 48 307 So insufficient seems an individual life for so much rhythmic effusion. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 243/1 A musical composition is made up of portions of equal rhythmic value, called measures. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 145 Its most rhythmic genius, its acutest intellect. 1924 J. 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. 1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1406/3 His rhythmic strategy meant that he retained the option of vers libre. 1991 Music & Lett. 72 71 A rhythmic analysis would identify the places in a line where stresses fall and where syllables are lightened, and would pick out the patterns formed by sequences of stress and relaxation. 2. a. Of language, verse, music, etc.: characterized by rhythm; composed rhythmically, written in verse as opposed to prose; having a pleasant or flowing rhythm; = rhythmical adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] numbrousa1586 numerous1589 rhythmical1589 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 numerical1749 rhythmal1812 rhythmopoetic1908 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion mensuralc1570 numerous1589 numeral1610 measurable1614 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 mensurable1776 measured1782 lilting1800 rhythmic-melodic1854 rhythmized1880 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 175 Those heavenly Poets which did see Thy will, and it expresse In rythmique feet. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. p. liii We are told that till the middle of the eleventh century rythmic [sic] or mensurable music was not known. 1788 Analyt. Rev. Nov. 338 That the Rhythmic Edda, although more ancient than the other, should have remained so long unnoticed. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 105 Much of it, too,..is rhythmic; a kind of wild chaunting song. 1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 95 The portion of time thus marked off by an intension and a remission of effort is a rhythmic foot. 1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form i. 2 The power and importance of symmetry and Rhythmic balance. 1889 F. W. Farrar Lives Fathers I. iii. 96 (note) The words are rhythmic. They consist of two sonorous epitrites. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. ii. xxxi. 129 In order to sing to the chug of a rattle or the tap of a drum, the song must be rhythmic. 1973 Black World Mar. 26 A stock feature of chanted sermons: the highly rhythmic, imaginative and improvisational rendering of the Word of God. 1991 Discover Mar. 80/2 (advt.) You will learn the language as stresslessly as a child does, by hearing new vocabulary and phrases in alternately loud whispered, and emphatic intonations, all accompanied by slow, rhythmic music. b. Of an action, movement, sound, event, etc.: that has a marked or recurrent pattern; regularly occurring; that generates a rhythm. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured measurable1569 rhythmetic1603 measured1604 cadent1613 rhythmicala1620 rhythmic1773 cadenceda1790 rhythmetical1801 rhythmed1832 1773 R. Graves Love of Order i. 19 Observe with what harmonic Grace Your Barber traverses your Face; Whole Razor, with true Rhythmic Art, In nimble Dactyls plays its Part. 1839 N.Y. Rev. Jan. 177 By proper instruments the very cataract might be made to jump with unknown joy, and the rain to fall in rhythmic measure. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vi. ii. 39 But presently the rhythmic movement of the oars attracted her. 1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 ii. 91 The cataract..plunging in rhythmic gushes down the shining rocks. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xxiv. 206 The rhythmic rattling of the train. 1883 J. A. Symonds Ital. Byways i. 3 A dozen Italian workmen..tramping in rhythmic stride. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 138 The..rhythmic plash of the wavelets on the beach. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xii. 177 The rhythmic swish of the dancers sounded like a swirling pool. 1957 L. T. C. Rolt Isambard Kingdom Brunel iv. 53 The rhythmic tread of a company of troops marching over the Broughton bridge. 1996 C. Brookmyre Quite Ugly One Morning ii. 7 Parlabane came round slowly, his senses kicking in one at a time behind the steady, rhythmic throb of his headache. c. Physiology. Of the heartbeat, breathing, or other physiological process: recurring at regular intervals, periodic. Cf. rhythm n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > system > [adjective] > organ > types of functions occult1651 systolic1653 rhythmic1826 rhythmical1829 involuntary1840 1826 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 26 430 The alternate contractions of the auricles and ventricles take place in the following rhythmic succession. 1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. xiii. 399 The intestines do not creep through their rhythmic movements. 1953 H. Mellanby Animal Life in Fresh Water (ed. 5) vii. 107 The long dorsal heart stands out beautifully and its rhythmic contraction can be watched. 1980 Lancet 16 Feb. 346/2 The mucus is swept over the epithelial surface by the rhythmic beating of myriads of cilia which project from the surface of the cells. 2006 B. L. Bardakjian in J. D. Bronzino Biomedical Engin. Fund. (ed. 3) vi. 6 The electrical rhythmic activity of the small intestine behaves like a system of coupled relaxation oscillators. d. figurative. That harmonizes or coheres; that constitutes a regular or repeated pattern. ΚΠ 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 177 The great salient points are admirably seized; all rounds itself off, into a kind of rhythmic coherence. 1850 R. W. Emerson Plato in Representative Men ii. 89 A theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say, the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe. 1874 L. Morris Songs of Two Worlds 2nd Ser. 171 Not all of life Is rhythmic; oft by level ways We walk. 1949 Art Bull. 31 194 They both move away from the sensitive emotion and fluid, rhythmic cohesion of Filippino Lippi's art. 1978 Lancs. Life Sept. 56/4 And there are the stolid, stonebuilt houses and mills for spinning, weaving and dyeing, giving a complementary angularity to the rhythmic forms of the surrounding hills. 1990 J. Hamilton Rackham iii. 65 When a posed composition succeeds..Rackham skilfully integrates figures and furnishings to make a harmonious, rhythmic whole. 3. Geology. Exhibiting or characterized by periodicity in sedimentary deposits or deposition (cf. rhythm n. 5b). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [adjective] > rhythm rhythmic1895 1895 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 3 122 The average thickness of the rhythmic couple, limestone and shale, is as before, eighteen inches. 1914 C. B. Crampton et al. Geol. of Caithness ix. 89 In the Helman Head Beds the rhythmic sequence is confined to continental, alluvial, and lacustrine deposits. 1960 F. J. Turner & J. Verhoogen Igneous & Metamorphic Petrol. (ed. 2) xi. 292 Gravitational settling of heavy dark minerals within the layer of mush carpeting the floor..is thought to be responsible for the rhythmic layering so widely prevalent in the lower levels. 2008 T. McCann Geol. Central Europe I. 227/2 The base of the formation is established by the rapid appearance of rhythmic sedimentation with fine-grained sandstones. †B. n. Chiefly with the. The science or theory of rhythm. Cf. rhythmica n., rhythmics n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > [noun] > of rhythm rhythmicaa1398 rhythmic1603 rhymic?1775 rhythmics1833 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [noun] > prosody > metrics metric1480 rhythmic1603 stichology1737 metre1786 metrology1889 metrics1892 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1260 Neither the Harmonique, nor the Rhythmicke [Fr. la rythmique], nor any one of these faculties of Musicke, which is named particular. 1740 tr. F. Juvenel de Carlencas Hist. Belles Lettres 201 The Rhythmick gave Rules for all the Sounds, as also for all the Motions of the Body. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 730 To harmonic, rhythmic, and metric, in the theoretic, respectively answered melopœïa, rhythmopœïa, and poetic, in the practic. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Metric The metric differed from the rhythmic in that the former was only used in the form of the verses, while the second was confined to the feet of which they are composed. 1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 94 The classical rhythmic of Pindar, Simonides, Æschylus. 1879 J. W. White tr. J. H. H. Schmidt (title) An Introduction to the Rhythmic and Metric of the Classical Languages. Compounds C1. Appositive, as rhythmic-melodic adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion mensuralc1570 numerous1589 numeral1610 measurable1614 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 mensurable1776 measured1782 lilting1800 rhythmic-melodic1854 rhythmized1880 1854 G. Macirone tr. A. B. Marx Gen. Musical Instr. 127/2 The master will prescribe very simple lessons of determined rhythm, and then make rhythmic–melodic variations on them [Ger. und dann dieselben rythmisch-melodisch variiren]. 1893 W. A. Ellis tr. R. Wagner Prose Wks. II. 78 Even in Opera nothing else had been possible to the Orchestra, when accompanying pantomimic movements, but that tied-down, banal rhythmic-melodic expression. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 55 Repeated rhythm patterns and rhythmic-melodic patterns..such as are characteristic of boogie-woogie and blues piano. 2004 Acta Musicologica 76 270 The piano states its rhythmic-melodic motive X once. C2. rhythmic breathing n. breathing occurring at a regular rate or in a particular rhythm, esp. as a result of voluntary control of the respiratory muscles. ΚΠ 1850 L. Mason & G. J. Webb Cantica Laudis 21/1 The practice of breathing at a particular part of the measure, or of rhythmic breathing, should be avoided. 1919 Lancet 20 Dec. 1126/2 In order to induce quiet rhythmic breathing when an attack [of asthma] was threatened I made her see a mental picture of her little boy and girl on a seesaw. 2007 N.Y. Mag. 16 July 28/3 Laurie and Jerry have been exploring a therapy called ‘holotropic breathwork’—a hypnotic technique using rhythmic breathing and music. rhythmic gymnast n. a person who performs rhythmic gymnastics. ΚΠ 1924 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Republican 28 Feb. 16 (advt.) Monsieur Bon Homme. Premiere rhythmic gymnast. 1988 P. Aykroyd Puffin Bk. Gymnastics xv. 125 As in artistic gymnastics, the rhythmic gymnast performs on a 12m-square floor mat. 2007 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 2 June 12 It takes about six to eight years before a rhythmic gymnast is ready to consider a run at the Olympics. rhythmic gymnastics n. (with singular and plural agreement) gymnastics performed in a rhythmical manner, esp. incorporating dance-like routines and performed with ribbons, hoops, or other accessories, often as a competitive sport; cf. eurhythmic n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > specific type rhythmic gymnastics1908 floor exercise1957 1908 C. A. Scott Social Educ. xi. 264 Speeches were made, followed by an exercise in rhythmic gymnastics. 1912 Standard 27 Nov. 9/5 Eurythmics [sic] is a word which Professor Jacques-Dalcroze has invented to describe his ‘rhythmic gymnastics’. 1967 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 25 294/2 The movement of rhythmic gymnastics which soon merged with the dance as an art. 2003 P. David Human Rights in Youth Sport xvi. 205 Discrimination also exists against boys and men in rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1603
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