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rhymical en · ADJ

Etymology

From rhyme + -ical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to rhyme.
    • And in that indulgent epoch it was no uncommon thing to find rhymical twins made of "chime" and "shine", while "roof" and "cough" and "enough" strayed hand in hand through many a flowery page of the old pastorals, and no critic was ever intrepid enough to dare protest against the strange mésalliance. 1913, James Whitcomb Riley, Edmund Henry Eitel, The complete works of James Whitcomb Riley:
    • We must look, then, for its place in the formal pattern, the metrical scheme, the rhymical pattern, and the syntactic pattern. 1978, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Poetic artifice: a theory of twentieth-century poetry, page 3:
    • […]for say what you will about accent being the only element of English verse, any one with a sensitive ear must be conscious that the harmony of a line depends upon some other rhymical element than mere accent. 1900, Hermann Sudermann, Poet lore: Volume 12:

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