rhythmistn.

1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. I. i. x. 89 An antient book, written in the Runic language, called the Edda, whence the Rhythmists of Iceland chiefly borrow their fictions.

1840 R. Cull in Garrick's Mode Reading Liturgy (new ed.) Prelim. Disc. 11 Now the rhythmist, like the musician, adjusts his bars in such a way, that while they divide the verse into equal measures, they also indicate the accented syllables.

1845 Titan 10 May 162/1 Man becomes a rhythmist, long before he knows it. Witness the regular strokes of the oar, the smith's hammer, the thrasher's flail, and the dances of the rudest nations.

1855 W. V. Harcourt Symmetrical Psalmody p. xvi It should be observed..that time is taken differently by Grammarians, and by writers on rhythm... The Rhythmists tell us that there is a longer time.

1864 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 95 No well-informed scholar would think of constructing a complete metric from the doctrines of the rhythmists.

1876 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets 375 So well-equipped a virtuoso, and so facile a rhythmist, was warranted in undertaking to write ‘The Earthly Paradise’.

1883 Athenæum 24 Feb. 242 Of its metrical possibilities in the hands of a master and to the ear of a rhythmist born.

1926 A. H. Godwin Gilbert & Sullivan xii. 117 Sullivan was a fount of ideas, greatly gifted as a melodist, quite as greatly gifted as a rhythmist.

1932 Musical Times 73 228/2 The player is the same as in the last-named disc. He is not a great rhythmist, and his sense of tone-beauty is not excessively developed.

1989 Rhythm Apr. 2 Some soul singers use live rhythmists.