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poetize

[poh-i-tahyz] / ˈpoʊ ɪˌtaɪz /


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You are the subject now, and, writing you, I well may versify, not poetize: Here needs no fiction: for the graces true And virtues clip not with base flatteries.

From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by J. R. Tutin

I think it could even poetize the Pittikin girls, or the Hughes, in Tano's opinion,” said Carlota.

From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal

He had been touched with the prevailing romanticism; he had written hymns like Manzoni, and, like Carrer, he sought to poetize the traditions and superstitions of his countrymen.

From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

To the good gentlemen who poetize concerning grace and the antique, who sigh for togas, stolas, and paludaments, I say, Go to.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018

A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prosaic and vulgar as were all these articles, in the dressmaker's imagination they became both poetized and purified.

From A Mummer's Wife by George (George Augustus) Moore

Well, here is sleep poetized and made doubly sweet.

From In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

I continued, but all arguments were poetized into feelings.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Why single out Freud, who, despite his Romantic poetizing about the seething cauldron of the unconscious, was himself a neurological determinist and reductionist?

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019

It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks.

From Time Magazine Archive

For four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Passions are as unwholesome as their enemy, thinking, or their friend, poetizing; only the complete coalition of them all is more poisonous still.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

My certie, but I'll spoil his actings, his writings, his inditings, his poetizing, and rhapsodizing.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling


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