inbeat

adjective

1. Occurring on an inward beat.

   […] two-beat: an outbeat gesture of (usually circumscribed) ecstasis as my glance is released from my bodily self, and an inbeat return of the glance to the bodily-self now modified by having just perceived its own image in the mirror.

Where it comes from

From Middle English inbeten, equivalent to in- + beat.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry inbeat (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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