Rhapsodize

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something). British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive

    "The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain."

  2. 2
    say (something) with great enthusiasm wordnet
  3. 3
    To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm. British, English, Oxford, US, transitive

    "“It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”"

  4. 4
    recite a rhapsody wordnet
  5. 5
    To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody. British, English, Oxford, US, transitive

    "The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]"

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  1. 6
    To perform a rhapsody. British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive

    "[…] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730."

Etymology

From rhapsody + -ize.

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