Forms: 7 eurythmie, 8–9 eurithmy, -ythmy. Also 8–9 in L. form eurythmia. [ad. L. eur(h)ythmia (Vitruv.) proportion, a. Gr. εὐρυθμία, f. εὔρυθμος well-proportioned (f. εὐ- (see EU-) + ῥυθμός proportion, RHYTHM); cf. Fr. eurhythmie.]
1. Archit. Harmony in the proportions of a building.
1624. Wotton, Archit., 118. Eurythmia is that agreeable Harmony, betweene the breadth, length and height of all the Roomes of the Fabrique … which suddenly … taketh euery Beholder.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1847. Leitch, trans. Müller’s Anc. Art, § 118. As well as the law of symmetry and eurhythmy.
1876. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss. s.v.
2. Path. Regularity of the pulse.
1721–1800. Bailey, Eurithmy, an excellent Disposition of the Pulse.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Eurythmia, regularity in beat of the pulse.
3. In wider senses of Gr. εὐρυθμία: a. Rhythmical order or movement; b. a graceful proportion and carriage of the body.
1706. in Phillips.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1844. Beck & Felton, trans. Munk’s Metres, 1. The artistic figure, as well as the artistic rhythm, must be beautiful. In this case we say the artistic figure has symmetry, and the artistic rhythm has eurhythmy.
