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Rhapsodize
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- 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 say (something) with great enthusiasm wordnet
- 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 recite a rhapsody wordnet
- 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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- 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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