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rhythmise

rhythmise is the alternative form of rhythmize.

Meaning of rhythmize

Verb

rhythmize (third-person singular simple present rhythmizes, present participle rhythmizing, simple past and past participle rhythmized)

  1. (transitive) To put into a rhythm; to make rhythmic.
    • Though we do not know the state of the folk-song of the Northern European peoples before the eleventh century, we see clearly, beginning with that period and afterwards, the tendency to rhythmize even the unrhythmical modes.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 110
  2. (intransitive) To follow a rhythm.

Forms of rhythmise

third-person singular presentrhythmises
present participlerhythmising
past participlerhythmised
pastrhythmised

Origin of rhythmise

From rhythm + -ise.

Questions about rhythmise

What is rhythmise the alternative form of?
Rhythmise is the alternative form of rhythmize.

Words near rhythmise in the dictionary

  1. rhythmics
  2. rhythming
  3. rhythmings
  4. rhythmisation
  5. rhythmisations
  6. rhythmise
  7. rhythmised
  8. rhythmises
  9. rhythmising
  10. rhythmist
  11. rhythmists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rhythmise (page history and authors); rhythmize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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