rhythmize

present singular third person rhythmizes · participle present rhythmizing · participle past rhythmized · past rhythmized

1. transitiveTo 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. intransitiveTo follow a rhythm.