adjective. Having cadence or rhythm.

adjective. Falling, as water or tears.

noun. In old music, a grace or embellishment consisting of an after-note one degree below the principal note: as

Falling; sinking.

In astrology, falling from an angle: applied to the third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses, which follow the meridian and the horizon.

Specifically applied to the tenth of Professor H. D. Rogers's fifteen divisions of the Paleozoic strata of Pennsylvania, which suggest metaphorically the different natural periods of the day. It corresponds to the Hamilton group of the New York survey.

adjective. Falling.

adjective. Falling.

adjective. marked by a rhythmical cadence

"You have begun now the Plotinian ascent from multiplicity to unity, and therefore begin to perceive in the Many the clear and actual presence of the One: the changeless and absolute Life, manifesting itself in all the myriad nascent, crescent, cadent lives."

rhythmic  rhythmical  

falling  rhythmical