rhythmize

From rhythm +‎ -ize.

rhythmize (third-person singular simple present rhythmizes, present participle rhythmizing, simple past and past participle rhythmized)

1. (transitive) To put into a rhythm; to make rhythmic.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 110:

     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.

2. (intransitive) To follow a rhythm.

• rhythmization