¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beatless
1. having no rhythm [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beatless
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. ..."