rhythmizev.
/ˈrɪð(ə)mʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈrɪð(ə)maɪz/ 1. intransitive. To apply or establish rhythm; (also) to experience or enjoy rhythm.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (intransitive)]
rhythmize1852
1852 H. S. Saroni tr. A. B. Marx Theory & Pract. Musical Composition i. ii. 375 The uniformity of the passage, and the liberty to select, close, and rhythmize [Ger. rhythmisiren] according to our pleasure, cannot but greatly assist us.
1907 Harvard Stud. in Classical Philol. 18 34 There is no hint here, or elsewhere, that he is rhythmizing.
1933 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 263 In some simple factory tasks it seems impossible not to rhythmize.
1970 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 6 Nov. 13/2 (advt.) Rhythmize to the musical touches of Bill Micheau.
2000 A. Nassar tr. E. Bloch Spirit of Utopia 77 So Bach rhythmized in a way.
2. transitive. To put into rhythm, apply rhythm to.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [verb (transitive)]
rhythmize?1862
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > put into rhythm [verb (transitive)]
rhythmize?1862
rhythm1889
?1862 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1860–1 59 The manner in which the iambic trimeter was rhythmized by the ancients, seems here to be clearly set before us.
1877 Trans. Philol. Soc. 457 The poet rhythmises whole passages, not single lines—except at a very early stage of his art.
1885 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 16 100 The tendency toward rhythm in speech is so strong that the voice will rhythmize just as completely as possible the material supplied to it.
1946 Scrutiny Dec. 94 A number of impressions that would otherwise be merely a sequence can, if rhythmized, be perceived as an organized whole.
1994 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 24 Dec. c20 There are different styles of chant and different ways to ornament, rhythmize and interpret the music.
Derivatives
ˈrhythmizable adj.
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1901 J. E. W. Wallin in Yale Psychol. Stud. 9 70 The limit of irregularity..may be determined by taking an easily rhythmisable series of intervals [etc.].
1990 L. Pearson in Aristoxenus Elementa Rhythmica 50 We are reminded that the same principles apply to rhythmic speech and melody and any kind of movement that is divisable into chronoi, and hence can be recognized as rhythmizable.
ˈrhythmized adj.
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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
1880 S. Lanier Sci. Eng. Verse vii. 235 English poetry might be a great gainer if we would at once frankly recognize this rhythmic but unmetric verse as a strictly-rhythmized prose.
1933 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 263 The rhythmized impressions are differentiated according to their position within the rhythm unit.
1955 G. Abraham in H. Van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman 21 Similarly rhythmised string chords replace the ‘scrub’ tremolo.
2000 Afr. Arts 33 14/3 The illustration of an extraordinarily rhythmized patchwork textile sewn by Peepina.
ˈrhythmizing n.
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1885 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 16 102 First, the rhythmizing instinct, striving to maintain double time, here favors equality of adjacent syllables.
1902 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 13 29 In musical rhythm there appear..the elements that are found in rhythmizing of uniform sounds and other simple rhythmical material.
1933 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 263 In typewriting,..individual differences in rhythmizing are far more marked.
2008 L. McNay Against Recognition ii. 72 There are also actions, such as ballroom dancing or flowing conversation, that..are based instead on a common ‘rhythmizing’ where agency cannot be attributed to a single individual.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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