4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.

Golden cadence of poesy.

Shak.

If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence."

Dr. Guest.

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