Beprose
//bɪˈpɹəʊz// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To reduce to prose. rare, transitive
"Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme."
Example
More examples"Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme."
Etymology
From be- + prose.
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