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Meanings of versify in English

Portuguese
versar

Compose verses or put into verse.

        versar
        Usage of versify in English
        1
        This characteristic of genius was discovered by HORACE in that Ode which schoolboys often versify.
        Literary Character of Men of Genius / Drawn from Their Own Feeli...
        2
        Alexis," said Babie; "he was asked to versify it."
        Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
        3
        And here another, which would versify into a fine horrible ballad-asgrand and ghastly as Alfred Tennyson's "Sisters:"
        The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
        4
        The following is an attempt to versify this melancholy appeal of distressed human nature to the help and justice of God.
        Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and ...
        5
        For the Munstermen have always been more 'prone to versify' than their leaner neighbours on the bogs and stones of Connaught.
        Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish
        6
        A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.'
        The Vicar of Wakefield
        7
        His powers were cramped by the fetters of metre, and his attempts to versify even rich thought and deep feeling were puerile.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        8
        Of course I did not consider my own foolish little versifying poetry.
        A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
        9
        The first edition contained nineteen psalms only, which were all versified by Sternhold.
        Sabbath in Puritan New England
        10
        Here is his rendering of the idea as versified in the Temple of Nature:
        A History of Science — Volume 4
        11
        He even amplified, versified, and enfeebled certain rough and ready sentences dictated by Giles.
        The Cloister and the Hearth
        12
        But peradventure, you think Pope Gregory I lived before Virgil, and Virgil versified him.
        The Cloister and the Hearth
        13
        The same writer has happily versified a pleasant superstition of the valley of the Connecticut.
        Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...
        14
        The praises of Boileau, although well versified, had not, however, the fortune to please him.
        Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7
        15
        But this from the versified Psalms is still worse, yet it is found in the books:
        The Book of American Negro Poetry
        16
        This story has been elegantly versified by Warton.
        Bulfinch's Mythology
        Translations for versify
        Portuguese
        versarversejar
        Versify through the time