syncopatedadj.

1665 R. Johnson Scholars Guide 3 A Circumflex tone, (ˆ) used..over..Words Syncopated and contracted, as,..amâsti, tibîcen.

1877 E. Abbott & E. D. Mansfield Primer Greek Gram. §51 The syncopated genitive and dative singular of words like πατήρ.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Feb. 3/1 The scrappy history, the political tattle, the syncopated gossip.

1911 J. H. A. Hart in Expositor Jan. 83 St. Matthew is trying to explain a syncopated report of the original pronouncement.

1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 156 Of Syncopated or Driving Canon.

1752 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Syncopation In syncopated or driving notes, the hand or foot is taken up, or put down, while the note is sounding.

1838 G. F. Graham Ess. Theory & Pract. Musical Composition 28/2 This legato and syncopated style.

1887 H. C. Banister Lect. Musical Anal. 165 This bold imitational and syncopated passage.

1908 Catal. Copyright Entries (U.S. Libr. Congress) 1069/2 Floreine waltz; syncopated, by Ernest J. Schuster.

1929 W. Thurman Blacker the Berry 120 They muddled their words and seemed to impregnate the syncopated melody with physical content.

1969 E. Roth Business of Music x. 247 Apart from syncopated rhythms, jazz proved unfruitful ground for serious music.

1927 Melody Maker Sept. 845/3 Brahms..employed syncopation and cross-rhythms about a century before modern ‘syncopated orchestras’ were dreamed of.

1928 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 3) V. 243/1 Dance bands are frequently spoken of as ‘Syncopated Orchestras’, less because their music employs syncopation than because their constitution with saxophones, percussive instruments, etc., is designed to emphasize the effects essential to dance music of the American type.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 222 The composer of highbrow jazz must obviously extend his harmonic vocabulary beyond the somewhat narrow range of the syncopated kings.

1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror iii. 62 The breeze was stronger now, and it ruffled the surface of the water, so that the goldfish had for the moment a sort of syncopated appearance.

1950 ‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xvi. 128 A regular syncopated pattern of shifting light.

1964 E. J. Hobsbawm Labouring Men 133 The oddly syncopated rhythm of the European trade-union ‘leaps’ between 1889 and 1914.

1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love vi. 155 Eventually Jizabel awoke from her syncopated dreamland.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 751/2 This last element [sc. a colonnade] modulates back and forth in a rather jerky and syncopated manner.