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‖ rhythmus|ˈrɪðməs, ˈrɪθməs|
Pl. rhythmi |-maɪ|. Also 6 rith-, 6–9 ryth-.
[L., a. Gr. ῥυθµός, related to ῥεῖν to flow.]
1. Pros. = rhythm n. 4, 4 b.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xv. (1534) 57 Metres & harmonies, called rythmi in greke. 1580G. Harvey in Three Proper Lett. 37 To make proofe of his facultie in Pentameters too, affecting a certaine Rithmus withall. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. iii. (Arb.) 83 This rithmus of theirs, is not therfore our rime, but a certaine musicall numerositie in vtterance. 1747Th―s Cl―s Reading Hebrew iv. 83 This Rhythmus is nothing but the marshalling or ranking of long and short Syllables intermixed. 1774Mitford Ess. Harmony Lang. 92 In this accentual harmony, where the meter is allowed all kinds of irregularity, what becomes of the rhythmus? 1778R. Lowth Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. xlviii, Such is R. Azarias's Hypothesis of the Rhythmus of Things. 1817Lady Morgan France iii. (1818) I. 334 To understand, how totally different the rythmus of a language is from its appearance to the eye. 1838Guest 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. 1840De Quincey Theory Grk. Trag. Wks. 1858 IX. 74 The sonorous rhythmus, and the grand intonation of the Greek Iambics.
fig.1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. ix. V. 237 They have..made a myth of Friedrich's History and given some rhythmus, life and cheerful substantiality to his work.
2. Mus. = rhythm n. 5.
1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) II. 396 What is meant by rhythmus is the assemblage or union of tunes in music which are joined together with a certain order and in certain proportions. 1792Burns Let. to G. Thomson 8 Nov., There is a peculiar rhythmus in many of our airs. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 375/1 The idea of rhythmus necessarily enters into that of melody.
3. Phys. and Path. = rhythm n. 7 b.
1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Rhythmus, a certain proportion of Pulses,..&c. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 7 Some pulses..had a good Rythmus, and some were without a Rythmus. |