Beprose

//bɪˈpɹəʊz// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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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