Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rhythm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Rhythm.
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- noun Obsolete form of
rhythm .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They register less completely, it seems to me, because the departure is too sudden in the rhythmus of the artist.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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The Polish polkas and mazurkas, with their changing and fugitive rhythmus and their lively, uneven time, admirably embody the light and graceful spirit of this people.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Especially beautiful is his rhythmus, often ascribed to St. Augustine:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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"Egredere, Emanuel, Quem nuntiavit Gabriel," a rhythmus "O pater Deus aeterne, de caelis altissimo" and a rhythmical Office of St. Gregory, in a somewhat clumsy form.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Seald the stately rhythmus of Una and Orianaended the quest of the Holy Graal;
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Blending, with Natures rhythmus, all the tongues of nations;
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She could give to French prose an Italian rhythmus.
Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884
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She could give to French prose an Italian rhythmus.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867
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Of the gradual development of such mastery of natural detail, a veritable counterfeit of nature, the veritable rhythmus of the runner, for example -- twinkling heel and ivory shoulder -- we have hints and traces in the historians of art.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays Walter Pater 1866
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Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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