Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to rhythm in art, or to a succession of measures marked by regularly recurrent accents, beats, or pulses; noting any succession so marked; hence, musical, metrical, or poetic: as, the rhythmical movement of marching or of a dance.
  • In physics and physiology, pertaining to or constituting a succession of alternate and opposite or correlative states.
  • In medicine, periodical.
  • In the graphic and plastic arts, properly proportioned or balanced.

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  • adjective rhythmic

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  • adjective recurring with measured regularity

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Examples

  • Three men rose and dipped, rose and dipped, in rhythmical precision; but a red bandanna, wrapped about the head of one, caught and held his eye.

    THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS 2010

  • The first rhythm falls well within English rhythmical norms a dactyl, whereas a sequence of four unstressed syllables does not.

    Archive 2008-01-01 DC 2008

  • The first rhythm falls well within English rhythmical norms a dactyl, whereas a sequence of four unstressed syllables does not.

    On cultur(e/ally)-related DC 2008

  • Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

    The Yosemite National Park 1969

  • In the early 19th century Flourens had already proved by experiment that by stimulating the semi-circular canals of the inner ear certain rhythmical eye movements (called nystagmus) could be caused and Purkinje showed that in human beings vertigo was induced by rotation.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation 1967

  • Three men rose and dipped, rose and dipped, in rhythmical precision; but a red bandanna, wrapped about the head of one, caught and held his eye.

    The God of His Fathers 1901

  • Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

    The Yosemite National Park 1899

  • It is “characterized by rhythmical, repetitive, involuntary movements of the tongue, face, mouth, or jaw, sometimes accompanied by other bizarre muscular activity.”

    Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

  • As they were intended for prayer and not for singing, they may be called rhythmical prayers (in German Reimgebete).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • What the Wagnerite calls rhythmical is what I call, to use a Greek metaphor,

    The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

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