Poetize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make (something) poetic. transitive
"She acknowledged that Wordsworth had done more to make all men poetical, than perhaps any other; that he was the poet of reflection; that where he failed to poetize his subject, his simple faith intimated to the reader a poetry that he did not find in the book."
- 2 compose verses or put into verse wordnet
- 3 To compose poetry. intransitive
"[T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]"
Example
More examples"She acknowledged that Wordsworth had done more to make all men poetical, than perhaps any other; that he was the poet of reflection; that where he failed to poetize his subject, his simple faith intimated to the reader a poetry that he did not find in the book."
Etymology
From poet + -ize.
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