rhymingn.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈraɪmɪŋ/

Forms: see rhyme v. and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English rymeinge, 1600s rimeing; Scottish pre-1700 rymeing, pre-1700 rymming.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhyme v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < rhyme v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare rhythming n.

The composition of rhymes or verses, versification. Also: an instance of making a word or line rhyme with another.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry

poesyc1390

makinga1393

rhymingc1405

metringc1425

metrificationc1450

versifyingc1450

rhythming1582

poetrya1586

versinga1586

metredom1592

versification1603

the gay science1693

versemanship1762

rhymery1822

bard-craft1840

poeticism1847

poetism1848

poetics1851

α.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 48 He kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng [c1415 Lansd. rymeinge] craftily.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 2208 He off rymyng toke the besynes To comfforte them that schuld falle in heuynes.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 322 To me nor to non vthir It accordit, In to our rymyng his nam to be recordit.

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. F^v If they be happy haue cause to be ware In ryming and raylyng with hym for to mell.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 61 This mislikyng of Ryming, beginneth not now of any newfangle singularitie.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxxix. 78 Their prosody, and vein of versifying or riming, which is like our Bards.

1692 J. Dennis in tr. Ovid Passion of Byblis Pref. sig. C My Lord Roscommon..was nicely exact in Riming, whenever he pretended to rime.

1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 53 The practice of Riming is probably to be deduced from the same original.

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 6 284 You..say 'tis very hard To range your rimings as befits a Sonnet.

1880 J. Ruskin On Old Road in Wks. (1899) III. 60 There is to be rich ryming and chiming, no matter how simply got.

1917 S. Colvin Keats vii. 209 There are no five pages of Pharonnida which do not contain more of those unfortunate rimings on ‘in’ and ‘by’ and ‘to’ and ‘on’ and ‘of’.

2003 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 123 377 One may speculate that riming in those days was done entirely by ear.

β. a1631 J. Donne Love's Exch. in Poems (1633) 224 At court your fellows every day Give th' art of rhyming, huntmanship, or play, For them, which were their own before.1662 Duchess of Newcastle Wits Cabal i. v. xxxvii, in Playes Written 287 Hang idle Rhyming, give me Reason.1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 17 Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking.1775 J. Walker (title) A dictionary of the English language, answering at once the purposes of rhyming, spelling, and pronouncing.1797 W. Scott Let. Oct. (1932) I. 77 You see I have not altogether lost the faculty of rhiming.1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. iv. 113 Here is rare rhyming, my worthy guest.1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 29 Much Rhyming thought poetry and praised as such.1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 123/2 Elephant's trunk, drunk. The phrase became incomprehensible by the dropping of the rhyming.1992 Option July 84/1 Rhyming, punning, tongue-tripping, spoonerizing, neologizing.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as rhyming mania, rhyming planet, rhyming principle, rhyming-trick, etc.

ΚΠ

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 39 I was not borne vnder a riming plannet.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 418/1 The new style of cadgers' cant..is done all on the rhyming principle.

1855 D. Noble Psychol. Med. (ed. 2) 182 A female patient whose rhyming mania was very amusing.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 66 After prophecy, the rhyming-trick Is poor employment.

1998 B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics 215/3 It but it happens to have a rhyming scheme which can be utilized indefinitely without destroying the basic metre.

C2.

rhyming mad adj. rare

ΚΠ

1721 tr. Horace in T. Dennis Orig. Lett. Familiar, Moral & Crit. II. 455 The Man is raving sure or rhiming mad.

1911 W. L. Visscher Poems of South 119 He parodied every poem that came..This duck who was rhyming mad.

C3.

rhyming dictionary n. a dictionary in which the words are arranged in groups according to the correspondence of their terminal sounds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific types of dictionary

interpreter1607

etymologicon1616

rhyming dictionary1775

idioticon1834

reverse dictionary1838

translator1850

collegiate dictionary1872

collegiate1898

1775 J. Walker Dict. Eng. Lang. p. v A rhyming dictionary in a living language, for the purposes of poetry, seems no very unnatural or useless production.

1806 J. Walker (title) A rhyming dictionary: answering, at the same time, the purposes of spelling and pronouncing the English language.

a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) i. 4 I remember him with his rhyming dictionary, composing his verses and scanning with his fingers.

1852 (title) Rhyming dictionary for the use of young poets.

1964 ‘E. McBain’ Ax x. 191 I'd like to buy a rhyming dictionary... I promised somebody I'd find a rhyme.

1989 M. Richler Solomon Gursky was Here (1990) I. iii. 23 Can the poet tell me..whether or not he uses a rhyming dictionary?

rhyming trade n. now rare the profession or pastime of writing poetry.

ΚΠ

1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 4 Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming [1677 rhythming] trade.

1700 S. Wesley Epist. Poetry 28 Not many Poets were for Statesmen made, It asks more Brains than stocks the Rhiming Trade.

1858 P. J. Bailey Age 57 A parliament of poets who'd agree To any set of laws which might be made To fix and tranquillise the rhyming trade.

1910 C. W. Previté-Orton Political Satire in Eng. Poetry iv. 124 Dryden's effect on his contemporaries in the rhyming-trade was so tremendous, that they attacked him in his own words and metre.

rhyming ware n. now rare poetic compositions, regarded as commodities.

ΚΠ

?1719 W. Hamilton in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. 18 Sae little worth's my Rhyming Ware, My pack I scarce dare apen mair.

1786 R. Burns Poems 201 An' hae a swap o' rhymin-ware, Wi' ane anither.

1894 R. Reid Poems 215 She likit weel My rhymin' ware.

1918 F. E. Pierce Currents & Eddies in Eng. Romantic Generation iii. 58 Enough has been said about the perishable rhyming ware of Lovell, Lloyd, and the Cottles.

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

rhymingadj.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪmɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈraɪmɪŋ/

Forms: see rhyme v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhyme v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < rhyme v. + -ing suffix². Compare rhythming adj.

1. Of a verse, poem, piece of writing, etc.: composed in rhyme; rhyming. Also: (of a word or other linguistic unit) that makes a rhyme.

ΘΚΠ

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

rhymedc1450

rhyming1563

rhythmical1599

chimed1646

rhythming1655

rhythmed1695

rhymya1704

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [adjective] > that makes a rhyme

rhyming1563

α.

1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) ii. 145 b Is it treason in a riming frame To clyp, to stretche, to adde, or chaunge a name?

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. v. 7 The American, the Perusine & the very Canniball, do sing and also say, their highest and holiest matters in certaine riming versicles.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. viii. 235 Sophisticate eloquence & riming harmonie of words.

1665 J. Cosin in G. Ornsby et al. Miscellanea (1861) I. 269 Some former Deanes..have appoynted..a ryming psalme to be sung instead of the Nicene Creed before sermon.

1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 56 Except a few lines in the Saxon Chronicle..and a short Canticle,..I have not been able to discover any attempts at Riming Poetry, which can with probability be referred to an earlier period than the reign of Henry the Second.

1873 R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies 2nd Ser. Introd. p. vii (note) The Moral Ode being a ryming poem.

1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. App. 562 In the riming Chronicle of John Page.

1911 Modern Philol. 9 14 I have aimed to give here only those compounds which have a riming element that is not a word by itself, as churchy-wurchy.

1996 S. E. Martin Consonant Lenition in Korean v. 26 A riming stem is attested with the initial rise intact.

β. 1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 15 Mr B. reprocheth vs, as in all places, so here in his rhyming Rhetorick.1661 T. Hunt Libellus Orthographicus xxix. 69 I have heard your rhyming-words as you call them.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rhyme In the later Latin Writers, scarce any thing is more common than rhyming Periods.1759 S. Johnson Idler 9 June 177 The corruption of taste which could bear any thing so unnatural as rhyming Tragedies.1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. 318 The Leonine, or rhyming hexameters.1871 E. A. Abbott Shakespearian Gram. (new ed.) §515 In a scene where there are no other rhyming lines.1904 Athenæum 21 May 646/2 Mr. Coleridge transposes the rhyming terminals ‘healthy’ and ‘wealthy’.1993 I. Opie People in Playground 13 The ‘riddle’ may be one of the old, now rare, ‘true’ poetic rhyming riddles, or a punning riddle.

2. Of a person: that composes rhymes or verses; versifying. Now chiefly: designating a poet who uses rhyme.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > composing verse

rhyming1566

rhythmical1567

versifying1580

versing1630

rhythmopoetic1865

α.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvi Synce I am cumde from cyty now, into the countrye towne, What shall be done (my ryming muse?) shall I in satyres frowne?

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. Prol. sig. A3 From iygging vaines of riming mother wits.

1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 6 For Wales..an old riming Poet sung thus [etc.].

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 The trencher fury of a riming parasite.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. ii. 4 Two Companies of Riming [1669 Rhiming] Poets from Sicily.

1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) iv. 119 For no Fanatick Riming Brother Can well do one without the other.

1764 C. Churchill Candidate 8 Some riming guest Roams thro' the Church-yard, whilst his Dinner's dress'd.

1882 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 3 356 Several verses with failing thesis which seem beyond emendation and must be charged to the lack of skill of the riming poet.

1960 Italica 37 264 As a riming poet..he was free to use in his rimes any form he knew.

β. 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge iii. ii. 33 What pitiful rhyming fellow's that?1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b4 This Rhyming Judge of the Twelve-penny Gallery.1729 T. Cooke Tales 75 While she condemns to long Despair The flut'ring and the rhyming Thing.1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 720 Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend, And many a compliment politely penn'd.1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 656 Our rhyming writeresses are frequently single gentlewomen.1880 O. W. Holmes Iron Gate & Other Poems 67 Hence of the rhyming thousand not a few Have builded worse—a great deal—than they knew.1988 M. L. Samuels in J. A. Alford Compan. to Piers Plowman viii. 209 The extent to which such mixtures occur in Middle English rhyming poets has certainly been overestimated in the past.

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

单词	rhyming
释义	rhymingn. Brit. /ˈrʌɪmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraɪmɪŋ/ Forms: see rhyme v. and -ing suffix¹; also late Middle English rymeinge, 1600s rimeing; Scottish pre-1700 rymeing, pre-1700 rymming. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhyme v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < rhyme v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare rhythming n. The composition of rhymes or verses, versification. Also: an instance of making a word or line rhyme with another. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry poesyc1390 makinga1393 rhymingc1405 metringc1425 metrificationc1450 versifyingc1450 rhythming1582 poetrya1586 versinga1586 metredom1592 versification1603 the gay science1693 versemanship1762 rhymery1822 bard-craft1840 poeticism1847 poetism1848 poetics1851 poetics1851 α. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 48 He kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng [c1415 Lansd. rymeinge] craftily. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 2208 He off rymyng toke the besynes To comfforte them that schuld falle in heuynes. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 322 To me nor to non vthir It accordit, In to our rymyng his nam to be recordit. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell sig. F^v If they be happy haue cause to be ware In ryming and raylyng with hym for to mell. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 61 This mislikyng of Ryming, beginneth not now of any newfangle singularitie. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxxix. 78 Their prosody, and vein of versifying or riming, which is like our Bards. 1692 J. Dennis in tr. Ovid Passion of Byblis Pref. sig. C My Lord Roscommon..was nicely exact in Riming, whenever he pretended to rime. 1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 53 The practice of Riming is probably to be deduced from the same original. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 6 284 You..say 'tis very hard To range your rimings as befits a Sonnet. 1880 J. Ruskin On Old Road in Wks. (1899) III. 60 There is to be rich ryming and chiming, no matter how simply got. 1917 S. Colvin Keats vii. 209 There are no five pages of Pharonnida which do not contain more of those unfortunate rimings on ‘in’ and ‘by’ and ‘to’ and ‘on’ and ‘of’. 2003 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 123 377 One may speculate that riming in those days was done entirely by ear. β. a1631 J. Donne Love's Exch. in Poems (1633) 224 At court your fellows every day Give th' art of rhyming, huntmanship, or play, For them, which were their own before.1662 Duchess of Newcastle Wits Cabal i. v. xxxvii, in Playes Written 287 Hang idle Rhyming, give me Reason.1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 17 Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking.1775 J. Walker (title) A dictionary of the English language, answering at once the purposes of rhyming, spelling, and pronouncing.1797 W. Scott Let. Oct. (1932) I. 77 You see I have not altogether lost the faculty of rhiming.1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. iv. 113 Here is rare rhyming, my worthy guest.1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 29 Much Rhyming thought poetry and praised as such.1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 123/2 Elephant's trunk, drunk. The phrase became incomprehensible by the dropping of the rhyming.1992 Option July 84/1 Rhyming, punning, tongue-tripping, spoonerizing, neologizing. Compounds C1. General attributive, as rhyming mania, rhyming planet, rhyming principle, rhyming-trick, etc. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 39 I was not borne vnder a riming plannet. View more context for this quotation 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 418/1 The new style of cadgers' cant..is done all on the rhyming principle. 1855 D. Noble Psychol. Med. (ed. 2) 182 A female patient whose rhyming mania was very amusing. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 66 After prophecy, the rhyming-trick Is poor employment. 1998 B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics 215/3 It but it happens to have a rhyming scheme which can be utilized indefinitely without destroying the basic metre. C2. rhyming mad adj. rare ΚΠ 1721 tr. Horace in T. Dennis Orig. Lett. Familiar, Moral & Crit. II. 455 The Man is raving sure or rhiming mad. 1911 W. L. Visscher Poems of South 119 He parodied every poem that came..This duck who was rhyming mad. C3. rhyming dictionary n. a dictionary in which the words are arranged in groups according to the correspondence of their terminal sounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > specific types of dictionary interpreter1607 etymologicon1616 rhyming dictionary1775 idioticon1834 reverse dictionary1838 translator1850 collegiate dictionary1872 collegiate1898 1775 J. Walker Dict. Eng. Lang. p. v A rhyming dictionary in a living language, for the purposes of poetry, seems no very unnatural or useless production. 1806 J. Walker (title) A rhyming dictionary: answering, at the same time, the purposes of spelling and pronouncing the English language. a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) i. 4 I remember him with his rhyming dictionary, composing his verses and scanning with his fingers. 1852 (title) Rhyming dictionary for the use of young poets. 1964 ‘E. McBain’ Ax x. 191 I'd like to buy a rhyming dictionary... I promised somebody I'd find a rhyme. 1989 M. Richler Solomon Gursky was Here (1990) I. iii. 23 Can the poet tell me..whether or not he uses a rhyming dictionary? rhyming trade n. now rare the profession or pastime of writing poetry. ΚΠ 1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 4 Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming [1677 rhythming] trade. 1700 S. Wesley Epist. Poetry 28 Not many Poets were for Statesmen made, It asks more Brains than stocks the Rhiming Trade. 1858 P. J. Bailey Age 57 A parliament of poets who'd agree To any set of laws which might be made To fix and tranquillise the rhyming trade. 1910 C. W. Previté-Orton Political Satire in Eng. Poetry iv. 124 Dryden's effect on his contemporaries in the rhyming-trade was so tremendous, that they attacked him in his own words and metre. rhyming ware n. now rare poetic compositions, regarded as commodities. ΚΠ ?1719 W. Hamilton in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. 18 Sae little worth's my Rhyming Ware, My pack I scarce dare apen mair. 1786 R. Burns Poems 201 An' hae a swap o' rhymin-ware, Wi' ane anither. 1894 R. Reid Poems 215 She likit weel My rhymin' ware. 1918 F. E. Pierce Currents & Eddies in Eng. Romantic Generation iii. 58 Enough has been said about the perishable rhyming ware of Lovell, Lloyd, and the Cottles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rhymingadj. Brit. /ˈrʌɪmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈraɪmɪŋ/ Forms: see rhyme v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rhyme v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < rhyme v. + -ing suffix². Compare rhythming adj. 1. Of a verse, poem, piece of writing, etc.: composed in rhyme; rhyming. Also: (of a word or other linguistic unit) that makes a rhyme. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [adjective] rhymedc1450 rhyming1563 rhythmical1599 chimed1646 rhythming1655 rhythmed1695 rhymya1704 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [adjective] > that makes a rhyme rhyming1563 α. 1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) ii. 145 b Is it treason in a riming frame To clyp, to stretche, to adde, or chaunge a name? 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. v. 7 The American, the Perusine & the very Canniball, do sing and also say, their highest and holiest matters in certaine riming versicles. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. viii. 235 Sophisticate eloquence & riming harmonie of words. 1665 J. Cosin in G. Ornsby et al. Miscellanea (1861) I. 269 Some former Deanes..have appoynted..a ryming psalme to be sung instead of the Nicene Creed before sermon. 1775 T. Tyrwhitt Ess. Lang. Chaucer in Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 56 Except a few lines in the Saxon Chronicle..and a short Canticle,..I have not been able to discover any attempts at Riming Poetry, which can with probability be referred to an earlier period than the reign of Henry the Second. 1873 R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies 2nd Ser. Introd. p. vii (note) The Moral Ode being a ryming poem. 1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. App. 562 In the riming Chronicle of John Page. 1911 Modern Philol. 9 14 I have aimed to give here only those compounds which have a riming element that is not a word by itself, as churchy-wurchy. 1996 S. E. Martin Consonant Lenition in Korean v. 26 A riming stem is attested with the initial rise intact. β. 1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 15 Mr B. reprocheth vs, as in all places, so here in his rhyming Rhetorick.1661 T. Hunt Libellus Orthographicus xxix. 69 I have heard your rhyming-words as you call them.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Rhyme In the later Latin Writers, scarce any thing is more common than rhyming Periods.1759 S. Johnson Idler 9 June 177 The corruption of taste which could bear any thing so unnatural as rhyming Tragedies.1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. 318 The Leonine, or rhyming hexameters.1871 E. A. Abbott Shakespearian Gram. (new ed.) §515 In a scene where there are no other rhyming lines.1904 Athenæum 21 May 646/2 Mr. Coleridge transposes the rhyming terminals ‘healthy’ and ‘wealthy’.1993 I. Opie People in Playground 13 The ‘riddle’ may be one of the old, now rare, ‘true’ poetic rhyming riddles, or a punning riddle. 2. Of a person: that composes rhymes or verses; versifying. Now chiefly: designating a poet who uses rhyme. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > composing verse rhyming1566 rhythmical1567 versifying1580 versing1630 rhythmopoetic1865 α. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvi Synce I am cumde from cyty now, into the countrye towne, What shall be done (my ryming muse?) shall I in satyres frowne? 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. Prol. sig. A3 From iygging vaines of riming mother wits. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 6 For Wales..an old riming Poet sung thus [etc.]. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 The trencher fury of a riming parasite. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. ii. 4 Two Companies of Riming [1669 Rhiming] Poets from Sicily. 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Britannicus (ed. 3) iv. 119 For no Fanatick Riming Brother Can well do one without the other. 1764 C. Churchill Candidate 8 Some riming guest Roams thro' the Church-yard, whilst his Dinner's dress'd. 1882 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 3 356 Several verses with failing thesis which seem beyond emendation and must be charged to the lack of skill of the riming poet. 1960 Italica 37 264 As a riming poet..he was free to use in his rimes any form he knew. β. 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge iii. ii. 33 What pitiful rhyming fellow's that?1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. b4 This Rhyming Judge of the Twelve-penny Gallery.1729 T. Cooke Tales 75 While she condemns to long Despair The flut'ring and the rhyming Thing.1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 720 Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend, And many a compliment politely penn'd.1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 656 Our rhyming writeresses are frequently single gentlewomen.1880 O. W. Holmes Iron Gate & Other Poems 67 Hence of the rhyming thousand not a few Have builded worse—a great deal—than they knew.1988 M. L. Samuels in J. A. Alford Compan. to Piers Plowman viii. 209 The extent to which such mixtures occur in Middle English rhyming poets has certainly been overestimated in the past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1405adj.1563
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