eurhythmic, a. and n. pl.
(juːˈrɪθmɪk)
[f. next + -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to well-arranged proportion, esp. in architecture.
| 1831 Fraser's Mag. IV. 287 Each [design]..is exceedingly funny in its way..with regard to ‘tactic efficiency’, ‘eurythmic [sic] diathesis’..and every other imaginable kind of diathesis. 1855 Lewes Goethe (1864) 177 Owing to some eurhythmic tendency in the construction of Greek plays. |
2. Of or pertaining to eurhythmics (see below).
| 1921 H. F. Rubinstein tr. Jaques-Dalcroze's Rhythm, Music & Educ. 196 Eurhythmic exercises enable the individual to feel and express music corporally. |
B. n. pl. A system of rhythmical bodily movements, esp. dancing exercises, with musical accompaniment, freq. used for educational purposes.
| 1912 Standard 27 Nov., Eurythmics [sic] is no longer a mysterious art—it is the new craze. Eurythmics is a word which Professor Jacques-Dalcroze has invented to describe his ‘rhythmic gymnastics’. 1920 Challenge 21 May 44/3 In the Eurythmics of M. Jacques Dalcroze..the dancer expresses by improvized postures the emotions aroused by music. 1925 C. Fox Educat. Psychol. 84 Dancing and eurhythmics in school. |
Hence euˈrhythmical a., eurhythˈmician, euˈrhythmist.
| 1921 H. F. Rubinstein tr. Jaques-Dalcroze's Rhythm, Music & Educ. 195 The art of the Eurhythmist is self-sufficient. Ibid. 206 Eurhythmicians watching exercises performed by fellow-students. 1923 Daily Mail 17 Mar. 10 An eurhythmical display under the command of M. Jaques-Dalcroze. 1924 J. J. Findlay in V. Davis Modern Teaching (1928) 101 The eurhythmist does not neglect or despise the body; he accepts the counsel of the trainer, but he leads his pupils to fix their attention on rhythmic values. |