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Posted by John Nichols on June 28, 2004 at 23:53:01 from 165.91.196.181 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: aye aye, Sir - today posted by David Bamford on June 28, 2004 at 23:26:55:

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(ram) Forms: 3 rim, 3-5 (7) rym, 3-7, 9 ryme, 6 risme, 3- rime. [a. OF. rime fem., for earlier *ridme, *ritme (with final inorganic -e after the two consonants, as in abîme, abisme, *abismum), ad. L. rithmus, rythmus, more correctly rhythmus, a. Gr. measured motion, time, proportion, etc.: see RHYTHM.
In med.L. the terms rithmi and rithmici versus were used to denote accentual in contrast to quantitative verse (metra). As similarity of the terminal sounds was a common feature of accentual verse, rithmus naturally came to have the sense of ‘rime’.
The OF. form rime was the source of Prov., Catal., Sp., Pg., and It. rima. OProv. and OCatal. had, however, the independent form rim, masc. The change of gender in F. is due to analogy with feminines in -e, a cause which has operated in many other words.
From OF. the word also spread into all the Teutonic languages, usually appearing as a monosyllable, perhaps partly through association with the native rm RIME n.3 Hence MDu. rime fem., rijm masc. and fem. (Du. rijm neut.), MFris. rime, rijme (mod.Fris. rym), MLG. rîm, rm, MHG. rîm masc. (G. reim), ON. and Icel. rím neut. (Norw., Sw., Da. rim). In Icel. ríma fem., ‘riming poem, ballad’, appears in the 14th cent.
Down to c 1560 the original spelling rime (ryme) continued to prevail in English. About that date the tendency to alter orthography on classical models led to the new spellings rithme, rythme, rhythm(e, which continued to be current till about the close of the 17th cent. (see RHYTHM n. I). Soon after 1600, probably from a desire to distinguish between ‘rime’ and ‘rhythm’, the intermediate forms rhime, rhyme came into use, and the latter finally established itself as the standard form (see RHYME n.). The original rime, however, has never been quite discontinued, and in about 1870 its use was considerably revived, esp. by writers upon the history of the English language or literature. To some extent this revival was due to the belief that the word was of native origin, and represented OE. rím RIME n.3]

1. a. Metre, measure (obs.); agreement in the terminal sounds of line or words. Cf. RHYME n. 3.

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c1200 ORMIN Ded. 44 Icc hafe sett her..mani word e rime swa to fillenn. Ibid. 101 Himm bidde icc att het write rihht,.. Wi all swillc rime alls her iss sett. a1300 Cursor M. 14922 Es resun at wee vr rime rume, And set fra nu langer bastune. c1386 CHAUCER Pars. T. Prol. 44, I kan nat geesteRum, Ram, Rufby lettre, Ne, god woot, rym holde I but litel bettre. c1392 Compl. Venus 80 To me hit ys a grete penaunce, Syth ryme in englissh hat such skarsete, To folowe worde by worde the curiosite. 1553 T. WILSON Rhet. (1562) 85 There was not a dosen sentences, in his whole Sermon, but thei ended all in rime, for the moste part. 1581 SIDNEY Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 71 Euen the very ryme it selfe, the Italian cannot put in the last silable, by the French named the Masculine ryme, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the Female; or the next before that. 1668 DRYDEN Dram. Poesy Ess. (Ker) I. 35 Who first taught us..to make our rime so properly a part of the verse, that it should never mislead the sense. 1672 MARVELL Reh. Transp. I. 87 They wanted nothing but rime to be right Tom Triplet. 1774 MITFORD Ess. Harmony Lang. 157 The Anglosaxon poets..generally used measures without rime. 1775 T. TYRWHITT Lang. & Versificat. Chaucer 53 note, We see evident marks of a fondness for Rime in the Hymns of S. Ambrosius and S. Damasus. 1833 S. AUSTIN tr. Characteristics Goethe II. 51 Wieland handled rime like a master. 1868 THORPE Anal. Anglo-Sax. 152 A Paraphrase of Job, xxi. xxx. Alliterative with final rime.

b. Coupled with reason: see RHYME n. 3b.

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c1460 J. RUSSELL Bk. Nurture 1243 As for ryme or reson, e forewryter was not to blame. 1530 TINDALE Answ. More xvi. Wks. (1573) 285/1 For appose her now of Christ, as Scripture testifieth of hym, and thou shalt finde her cleane without rime or reason. 1548 UDALL, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xi. 108 Seeyng there is nether ryme ne reason in saing yt one eiuill spirite driueth out an other eiuil spirite. 1600 HOLLAND Livy XXVII. xxxvii. 656 These songs..would seeme but simple stuffe, and composed without rime or reason. 1607 B. JONSON Volpone Prol., Here is ri'me, not emptie of reason. 1621 HAKEWILL David's Vow 33 It is both ryme and reason.

c. An instance of lines or words ending in the same sounds; a word that rimes with another word.

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1599 SHAKES. Much Ado V. ii. 37, I can finde out no rime to Ladie but babie, an innocent rime: for scorne, horne, a hard rime; for schoole foole, a babling rime; verie ominous endings. 1603 DANIEL Def. Ryme Wks. (Grosart) IV. 44 Indeed I haue wished there was not that multiplicitie of Rymes as is vsed by many in Sonets. 1651 HOBBES Leviath. I. iii. 10 As a man should run over the Alphabet, to start a rime. 1878 STEVENSON Inland Voy. 232 May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of. 1887 FURNIVALL in R. Brunne's Chron. (Rolls) II. 587 The couples of rymes are entered alphabetically by the first word of the couple. 1891 T. R. LOUNSBURY Stud. in Chaucer I. iv. 375 There are tests resting upon the recurrence of assonant rymes.

2. a. Riming or rimed verse. Cf. RHYME n. 2. Most commonly in the phr. in rime.

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c1220 Bestiary 695 In boke is e turtres lif writen o rime, wu laelike e holde luue al hire lif time. a1300 Cursor M. 87 Off suilk an suld e mater take,..Of hir to mak bath rim and sang. c1369 CHAUCER Dethe Blaunche 464 He made of ryme ten verses or twelue. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 3261, I ffynde In prose and ryme, Was non so strong In that tyme. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 3 And thanne y made this boke. But y wolde not sette it in ryme. 1529 MORE Dyaloge III. Wks. 223/1 A foolish raylyng boke against the clergy, and much part made in ryme. 1564 W. BULLEIN Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 16 Chaucer satte in a chaire of gold..writyng Prose and Risme. 1581 G. PETTIE tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. II. (1586) 66b, I am of this minde, that the making of rime shoulde not make a Poet use naughtie wordes. c1600 SHAKES. Sonn. cvi, Beautie making beautifull old rime, In praise of Ladies dead, and louely Knights. a1631 DONNE Poems (1650) 11, I thought, if I could draw my paines Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay. 1716 HEARNE Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 189 Written in rime in the Country Dialect. 1802 RITSON Metr. Rom. I. p. xviii, There is, even, a Latin song in rime extant in print, which was made upon a great victory obtain'd by king Clothair the second. 1876 FREEMAN Norm. Conq. (1877) V. 589 Before the end of the twelfth century England had seen an English sermon in regular rime.

b. rime doggerel: see DOGGEREL A.

c. rime royal: see RHYME n. 2c, and RHYTHM n. 1b.

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[1871 SKEAT Spec. Eng. Lit. III. (1887) 41 ‘The Kingis Quair’ is written in seven-lined stanzas, a favourite measure of Chaucer and his successors, which received the name of the ‘rime roial’.] 1882 OGILVIE, Rime-royal. 1903 H. BRADLEY in Pol., Rel., & Love Poems 291 Each of the seven stanzas (in ‘rime royal’).

d. See RIDING RHYME.

e. rime couée = tailed rime s.v. TAILED a. 1d.

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c1330 [see COUWEE a.]. 1775 T. TYRWHITT Canterbury Tales of Chaucer IV. 72 Though Robert of Brunne in his Prologue professes not to attempt these elegancies of composition, yet he has intermixed several passages in Rime Couwée. 1893 [see TAILED a. 1d]. 1935 Essays & Stud. XX. 97 The rime couée or romance stanza of six lines (double eight and six). 1945 E. K. CHAMBERS Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages i. 25 The metre of the Chester plays..is a Romance metre of the type known as rime couée or tail-rhyme.

f. rime riche = rich rhyme s.v. RICH a. 7c.

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[1903 H. J. CHAYTOR Compan. French Verse iv. 23 Rimes are also distinguished as rich and sufficient (riche, suffisante).] 1904 BRANDIN & HARTOG Bk. French Prosody iv. 53 Victor Hugo uses the rime riche more than any of his predecessors. 1930 A. HUXLEY Vulgarity in Lit. 35 When Laforgue wrote of that ‘roi de Thulé, Immaculé’ his rime riche was entirely above suspicion. 1961 A. CLARKE Later Poems 92 With the exception of the sonnet and the little experiment in rime riche, these pieces came to me quite unexpectedly.

3. A riming poem or piece of riming verse. Cf. RHYME n. 1.

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c1250 Gen. & Ex. 1 Man og to luuen at rimes ren. c1275 Luue Ron 193 in O.E. Misc. 99 is rym, mayde, ich e sende open and wi-vte sel. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1341 (Kölbing), So ich ou segge in mi rime. c1386 CHAUCER Man of Law's T. Prol. 96, I speke in prose, and lat him rymes make. 1508 KENNEDIE Flyting w. Dunbar 332 Renounce thy rymis. 1542 UDALL Erasm. Apoph. 245 These songes or rymes..were called in Latin Fescennina carmina. 1590 SHAKES. Mids. N. I. i. 28 Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast giuen her rimes, And interchang'd loue-tokens with my childe. 1617 MORYSON Itin. III. 99 In the Sea townes of England they sing this English rime; Shoulder of mutton and English Beere, Make the Flemmings tarry here. 1699 GARTH Dispens. IV. 46 Up these shelves, much Gothick Lumber climbs, With Swiss Philosophy, and Danish Rimes. 1798 COLERIDGE in Lyr. Ballads 5 The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts. 1881 MAHAFFY Old Greek Educ. ii. 23 There is hardly a word left of the nursery rimes. 1894 J. T. FOWLER Adamnan Introd. 40 The famous old Irish rime about St. Patrick.

4. = RHYTHM n. 4, 5. Obs.

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1586 W. WEBBE Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 57 Ryme is properly, the iust proportion of a clause or sentence, whether it be in prose or meeter, aptly comprised together. 1677 GALE Crt. Gentiles IV. 99 Plato informes us..the whole life of a virtuose man must be composed..of Symphonie or Concert and musical ryme.

5. attrib. and Comb., as rime-ending, -index, -making, -word; rime-maker, -wright; rime-rotten adj.; rime-letter, the distinctive initial letter in a line of alliterative verse.

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1591 FRAUNCE C'tess Pembr. Yvychurch I. II. iii, Neither Castalian Muses..Nor rymewright singers. 1599 PORTER Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 40 Speake men what they can to him, hee'l answere With some rime rotten sentence or olde saying. 1611 FLORIO, Rimatore, a Rimer, a Rime-maker. 1865 SKEAT in Brock Morte Arth. p. x, Of the strongly-accented syllables, three begin with a common letter, which has been called the rime-letter. 1877 The Bruce 628 A complete Rime-index would occupy a considerable space. 1887 FURNIVALL in R. Brunne's Chron. (Rolls) I. p. xx, After some of the ryme-endings. 1893 Cursor Mundi (E.E.T.S.) 136* note, There are three ryme-words, gnede, brede, shrede. 1935 C. S. LEWIS in Lysistrata May 22 Rude rime-making wrongs her beauty, Whose breasts and brow..Bewitch the worlds.





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