Word Meanings - RHYTHMICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.
Related words: (words related to RHYTHMICS)
- DEPARTMENT
1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's - LENGTHFUL
Long. Pope. - DEPARTMENTAL
Pertaining to a department or division. Burke. - MUSICALLY
In a musical manner. - MUSICAL
1. Music. To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser. 2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - LENGTHINESS
The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity. - MUSICALE
A social musical party. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction. - LENGTHILY
In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent. - LENGTHEN
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden. - LENGTHY
Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy - MUSICALNESS
The quality of being musical. - LENGTH
1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the - DEPARTMENT STORE
A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock. - SCIENCE
1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all - PHILOMUSICAL
Loving music. Busby. - PRESCIENCE
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards. - ALENGTH
At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer. - OMNISCIENCE
The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden. - UNSCIENCE
Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer. - CONSCIENCE
consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power, - HALF-LENGTH
Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture. - CONSCIENCED
Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak. - BISHOP'S LENGTH
A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56. - NESCIENCE
Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.