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677. 3. In music, an instrumental composition in irregular form, somewhat like a caprice, impromptu, or improvisation, though properly more important: as, Liszt's Hungarian rhapso dies.-4. Any rambling composition; a cento; hence, a medley; a jumble. (D. rijnbloeme ), cudweed; reynweyde, also reynwilghe, rijnwilghe, privet; reynvaeren, reynvaer (D. reinvaar ), tansy; the element reyn-, rijn-, being uncertain.) The common buckthorn. rhematic (re-matik), a. and n. [ rhematic Such [adjectives in -able ) as are derived from verbs deserve the precedence. And these, to avoid the ambiguousne of the term verbal, I shall take leave to denominate rhematic . 1. Hall , Adjectives in -able , p. 47. II. n. The doctrine of propositions or sentences. Cole ridge . Rhemish (rē'mish), a. [ [ rheinisch , MHG. rinisch, rinesch, rinsch (= D. rijnsch = Dan, rhinsk = Sw. rhensk ), Rhein , MHG. Rin , OHG. Rin , Hrin (= D. Rijn = ME. Rin ) (L. Rhenus , Gr. 'Ρῆνος), the Rhine; a name prob. of Celtic origin.] I. a. Of or pertaining to the Rhine, a river of Europe which rises in Switzerland, traverses Germany and the Netherlands, and empties into the North Sea. Rhenish architecture, the local form a umed by Romanesque or round-arched architecture in the eleventh and twelfth centuries in the regions bordering upon the Rhine. The earliest churches seem to have MALLOLM Rhenish Architecture.- Apse of the Church of the Apostles, Cologne. been circular; the circular original in the later rectangular type may perhaps be represented by the semicircular western apse in addition to that at the east end, characteristic of those regions. In buildings of this style small circular or octagonal towers are frequent. Arcaded galleries beneath the eaves, and richly carved capitals, often resembling Byzantine work, are among the most beautiful features. The Rhenish buildings are, however, despite much dignity and manifest suitability to their purpose, inferior in both design and ornament to those of the French Romanesque.- Rhenish wine. See wine. II. n. Rhine or Rhenish wine. See wine . A' poured a flagon of Rhenish on my head once. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 197.