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poetize

[poh-i-tahyz] / ˈpoʊ ɪˌtaɪz /


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So before I begin to poetize, i'll take an easy with you.

From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Now thus to poetize the tragedy of one's own life is fatuous; it is like enjoying one's dizziness on the brink of a precipice, or the pangs of sickness without seeking a remedy.

From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry

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

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

They relieve the grossness of the material enjoyments; they poetize the meal; and if you have no women at table, mon cher, be sure to have flowers: not that I object to both together.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever

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

The seeing of his name in print was no longer a novelty and he poetized not quite as steadily.

From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

They strove with their full strength against those conditions panegyrized and poetized by the smirking optimists of their time, and thereby incurred the enmity of pedants and self-sufficient purists,—were denounced and denied, belittled and belied.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

"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

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

He is one of those wandering minstrels and happy improvisers whom the favor of princes had turned into poetizing beggars.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

You'll have plenty of time for poetizing and dreaming there.

From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan




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