rhythmusn.

Brit.

/ˈrɪðməs/, U.S.

/ˈrɪðməs/

Inflections: Plural rhythmi.

Forms: 1500s rithmus, 1500s–1800s rythmus, 1600s– rhythmus.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rhythmus, rythmus.

Etymology: < classical Latin rhythmus (also rythmus) sequence of sounds forming a pattern, (specifically) measured flow of words or phrases in prose, in post-classical Latin also harmony, harmonious part (from 6th cent. in British sources), verse (esp. accentual, syllabic as opposed to quantitative verse), pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (from 8th cent. in British sources), sequence of sounds forming a pattern (from 10th cent. in British sources), a poem, verse, or song, esp. a light one (from 12th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ῥυθμός measured motion, time, measured flow of words or phrases in prose, measure, proportion, symmetry, arrangement, order < an ablaut variant of the base of ῥεῖν to flow (see rheid n.) + -θμος , extended form of -μος , suffix forming nouns. Compare later rhythm n. Compare also rhyme n. and discussion at that entry. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (riþməs) /rɪθməs/: see discussion at rhythm n.

1. = rhythm n. 1a, 1b, 1d. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

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

cadencec1384

coloura1522

rhythmus1531

running1533

number1553

rhythm1560

cadency1628

chimea1649

run1693

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hiv^v Metres & harmonies called rythmi in greke.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 57 This rithmus of theirs, is not therfore our rime, but a certaine musicall numerositie in vtterance.

1655 M. Casaubon Treat. Enthusiasme iv. 179 This very word Rhythmus in matter of speech, what it is..would be..a long and difficult businesse to make it plain... It is enough for my purpose..to let the Reader know, that as in all Poetry there is somewhat of Musick.

1721 C. Gildon Laws of Poetry 63 If the gentleman..had been acquainted with the force of the Rhythmus..he may yet have found that tho' a poet may be free from false quantities or numbers, he may yet fall short of that harmonious sound.

1747 J. Robertson True Manner reading Hebrew iv. 83 This Rhythmus is nothing but the marshalling or ranking of long and short Syllables intermixed.

1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 92 In this accentual harmony, where the meter is allowed all kinds of irregularity, what becomes of the rhythmus?

1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) I. iii. 334 To understand, how totally different the rythmus of a language is from its appearance to the eye.

1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 431 The metrum, which may best dispute with the Asclepiad the honour of giving rise to the Alexandrine rhythmus, is the Trochaic Dimeter wanting half a metre.

1840 T. De Quincey Theory Greek Trag. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 153/1 The sonorous rhythmus, and the grand intonation of the Greek iambics.

1917 Mod. Philol. 15 46 Children's words are mostly calls... The rhythmus of speech with them is mostly constituted by repeated short syllables or by lengthened endings.

2002 N. Tosches in National Post (Canada) 7 Sept. sp2 A wild, free, and powerful rhythmus beyond all meters devised; a poetry that ran sans entraves.

2. Music. = rhythm n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

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

proportiona1387

measurea1525

mode1561

casure1565

moodc1570

rhythm1576

rhyme1586

stotc1590

dimension1597

sextupla1597

timing1597

rhythmus1603

cadence1605

time1609

cadency1628

movement1683

lilt1841

metre1873

tempus1889

riddim1943

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1252 We are to speake of the numbers and measures in Musicke called Rhythmi.

1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiv. 586 That under the Head of Mutations, those who consider the Rythmus make the Changes of it no other than from one Kind of metrum or Verse to another, as from Jambick to Choraick: And we may notice too, That in the more general Sense, the Rythmus includes also their [sc. the ancient Greeks'] Dancings, and all the theatrical Action.

1792 R. Burns Let. 8 Nov. (2003) II. 157 There is a peculiar rhythmus in many of our airs.

1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxiii. 534 In music the Greeks distinguished..rhythmus, mutations, and melopœia.

1853 Musical Times Feb. 131/1 Though the melody of the Kyrie wears the garb of the last century, the bold distinct rhythmus and the fine voice parts of this movement will always render it agreeable to the ear.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. 71 He handed the score to Thea. ‘Listen, I play it through and you get the rhythmus.’

1974 Times 24 June 7/5 The totally unpredictable verbal rhythmus, the abrupt endings, and the often demandingly elaborate piano accompaniment.

2008 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 20 The rhythmus and drone of the music combine with the arrhythmia of the visuals into a transitive nightmare.

3. Physiology. = rhythm n. 3. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > system > [noun] > organ > faculty or function of > types of functions

systole1565

reluctation1632

metastasis1663

rhythm1683

rhythmus1707

reaction1860

1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 7 Some pulses..had a good Rythmus, and some were without a Rythmus.

1775 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. at Arythmus Every age hath its natural pulse, which as long as it keeps in its due rhythmus, or modulation of time and force, is called eurithmus.

1850 J. Laurie & A. G. Hull Elements Homœopathic Pract. Physic 200 The trembling convulsive action and intermitting pulsation of the heart are no fixed diagnostic signs of any particular disease, but merely an irregularity in the rhythmus.

1910 P. W. Shedd tr. O. Rumpel Cystoscopy as Adjuvant of Surg. 53 So far as observation of the rhythmus of uret[e]ral discharges is concerned, it should be borne in mind that single intervals between uret[e]ral contractions may be of various lengths.

2008 Arch. Oral Biol. 53 1109/2 Each participant came to a designated research room to be evaluated at the same time every weekday (to minimize the effect of biological rhythmus).

†4. = rhythm n. 5. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [noun] > rhythm or measure

cadencec1384

modulation1531

measure1576

timekeeping1593

cadency1628

rhythmus1778

rhythmicality1817

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. xlviii Such is R. Azarias's Hypothesis of the Rhythmus of Things.

1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. ix. 237 They have..made a Myth of Friedrich's History, and given some rhythmus, life and cheerful human substantiality to his work.

1870 J. Thomson Poet. Wks. (1895) I. 309 How gayly, Master dear, it leaps and rolls Unto its own dry rhythmus, quick or dead.

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

单词	rhythmus
释义	rhythmusn. Brit. /ˈrɪðməs/, U.S. /ˈrɪðməs/ Inflections: Plural rhythmi. Forms: 1500s rithmus, 1500s–1800s rythmus, 1600s– rhythmus. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin rhythmus, rythmus. Etymology: < classical Latin rhythmus (also rythmus) sequence of sounds forming a pattern, (specifically) measured flow of words or phrases in prose, in post-classical Latin also harmony, harmonious part (from 6th cent. in British sources), verse (esp. accentual, syllabic as opposed to quantitative verse), pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (from 8th cent. in British sources), sequence of sounds forming a pattern (from 10th cent. in British sources), a poem, verse, or song, esp. a light one (from 12th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek ῥυθμός measured motion, time, measured flow of words or phrases in prose, measure, proportion, symmetry, arrangement, order < an ablaut variant of the base of ῥεῖν to flow (see rheid n.) + -θμος , extended form of -μος , suffix forming nouns. Compare later rhythm n. Compare also rhyme n. and discussion at that entry. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (riþməs) /rɪθməs/: see discussion at rhythm n. 1. = rhythm n. 1a, 1b, 1d. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] cadencec1384 coloura1522 rhythmus1531 running1533 number1553 rhythm1560 cadency1628 chimea1649 run1693 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hiv^v Metres & harmonies called rythmi in greke. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 57 This rithmus of theirs, is not therfore our rime, but a certaine musicall numerositie in vtterance. 1655 M. Casaubon Treat. Enthusiasme iv. 179 This very word Rhythmus in matter of speech, what it is..would be..a long and difficult businesse to make it plain... It is enough for my purpose..to let the Reader know, that as in all Poetry there is somewhat of Musick. 1721 C. Gildon Laws of Poetry 63 If the gentleman..had been acquainted with the force of the Rhythmus..he may yet have found that tho' a poet may be free from false quantities or numbers, he may yet fall short of that harmonious sound. 1747 J. Robertson True Manner reading Hebrew iv. 83 This Rhythmus is nothing but the marshalling or ranking of long and short Syllables intermixed. 1774 W. Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 92 In this accentual harmony, where the meter is allowed all kinds of irregularity, what becomes of the rhythmus? 1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) I. iii. 334 To understand, how totally different the rythmus of a language is from its appearance to the eye. 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. 431 The metrum, which may best dispute with the Asclepiad the honour of giving rise to the Alexandrine rhythmus, is the Trochaic Dimeter wanting half a metre. 1840 T. De Quincey Theory Greek Trag. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 153/1 The sonorous rhythmus, and the grand intonation of the Greek iambics. 1917 Mod. Philol. 15 46 Children's words are mostly calls... The rhythmus of speech with them is mostly constituted by repeated short syllables or by lengthened endings. 2002 N. Tosches in National Post (Canada) 7 Sept. sp2 A wild, free, and powerful rhythmus beyond all meters devised; a poetry that ran sans entraves. 2. Music. = rhythm n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] proportiona1387 measurea1525 mode1561 casure1565 moodc1570 rhythm1576 rhyme1586 stotc1590 dimension1597 sextupla1597 timing1597 rhythmus1603 cadence1605 time1609 cadency1628 movement1683 lilt1841 metre1873 tempus1889 riddim1943 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1252 We are to speake of the numbers and measures in Musicke called Rhythmi. 1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiv. 586 That under the Head of Mutations, those who consider the Rythmus make the Changes of it no other than from one Kind of metrum or Verse to another, as from Jambick to Choraick: And we may notice too, That in the more general Sense, the Rythmus includes also their [sc. the ancient Greeks'] Dancings, and all the theatrical Action. 1792 R. Burns Let. 8 Nov. (2003) II. 157 There is a peculiar rhythmus in many of our airs. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxiii. 534 In music the Greeks distinguished..rhythmus, mutations, and melopœia. 1853 Musical Times Feb. 131/1 Though the melody of the Kyrie wears the garb of the last century, the bold distinct rhythmus and the fine voice parts of this movement will always render it agreeable to the ear. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. 71 He handed the score to Thea. ‘Listen, I play it through and you get the rhythmus.’ 1974 Times 24 June 7/5 The totally unpredictable verbal rhythmus, the abrupt endings, and the often demandingly elaborate piano accompaniment. 2008 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 20 The rhythmus and drone of the music combine with the arrhythmia of the visuals into a transitive nightmare. 3. Physiology. = rhythm n. 3. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > system > [noun] > organ > faculty or function of > types of functions systole1565 reluctation1632 metastasis1663 rhythm1683 rhythmus1707 reaction1860 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 7 Some pulses..had a good Rythmus, and some were without a Rythmus. 1775 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. at Arythmus Every age hath its natural pulse, which as long as it keeps in its due rhythmus, or modulation of time and force, is called eurithmus. 1850 J. Laurie & A. G. Hull Elements Homœopathic Pract. Physic 200 The trembling convulsive action and intermitting pulsation of the heart are no fixed diagnostic signs of any particular disease, but merely an irregularity in the rhythmus. 1910 P. W. Shedd tr. O. Rumpel Cystoscopy as Adjuvant of Surg. 53 So far as observation of the rhythmus of uret[e]ral discharges is concerned, it should be borne in mind that single intervals between uret[e]ral contractions may be of various lengths. 2008 Arch. Oral Biol. 53 1109/2 Each participant came to a designated research room to be evaluated at the same time every weekday (to minimize the effect of biological rhythmus). †4. = rhythm n. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [noun] > rhythm or measure cadencec1384 modulation1531 measure1576 timekeeping1593 cadency1628 rhythmus1778 rhythmicality1817 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. xlviii Such is R. Azarias's Hypothesis of the Rhythmus of Things. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. ix. 237 They have..made a Myth of Friedrich's History, and given some rhythmus, life and cheerful human substantiality to his work. 1870 J. Thomson Poet. Wks. (1895) I. 309 How gayly, Master dear, it leaps and rolls Unto its own dry rhythmus, quick or dead. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1531
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