Definition of Beatless

1. Adjective. (music) Having no beat. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beatless

1. having no rhythm [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beatless

beatifies
beatify
beatifying
beatin'
beating-heart transplant
beating-heart transplants
beating-reed instrument
beating around the bush
beating down
beating off
beating up
beatings
beatitude
beatitudes
beatless (current term)
beatmaker
beatmakers
beatmatching
beatnik
beatnikery
beatnikism
beatniks
beato
beats
beats a dead horse
beats around the bush
beats down
beats me
beats off

Literary usage of Beatless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"the inevitability of harmony," although Mr. Grainger does not dislike harmony—"I adore it"—he wishes to realize his boyhood's dream, to bring his "beatless" ..."

2. The Montreal Medical Journal edited by George Edgeworth Fenwick, Thomas George Roddick, George Ross (1878)
"If the heart still continues beatless after the inhalation of the nitrite of amyl, I should feel inclined to puncture the pericardium, so as to reach the ..."

3. Russia as I Know it by Harry De Windt (1917)
"It is beatless, about seven feet long by five feet broad, and the luggage is packed in the well of the vehicle, a mattress being placed over the former on ..."

4. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1863)
"... by an ail-but Rabelaisian merriment, has had the weight of grave-clods put above its beatless valves, and a summer's grass has grown over his remains. ..."

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