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poetize

[poh-i-tahyz] / ˈpoʊ ɪˌtaɪz /


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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 may poetize fairly, and saw poorly; or he may saw fairly, and poetize poorly; or he may both saw and poetize indifferently.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke

I agree, my master, that 'tis better to philosophize and poetize, to blow the flame in the furnace, or to receive it from carry cats on a shield.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood

But to poetize the tragedy of others, to fiddle while Rome is burning, is brutal.

From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry

The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.

From England's Antiphon by George MacDonald

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

Until the middle of the nineteenth century, knowledge of mythology was practically limited to the poetized mythology of the Greeks and Romans.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars

"Hideous thing to be poetized," thought Truesdale; "but they all do it in one way or another."

From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

There is great difference of opinion among philosophers as to the origin of myths,--whether they began in fable and came to be regarded as history, or began as human history and were poetized into fable.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

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

Far from considering it as wasteful to give time and thought to the perfecting, beautifying and poetizing of forms, I think we should spend as much as we can upon it.

From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee

Such poetizing is quite in the style of the new theology.

From Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick




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