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Meanings of versify in English
Synonyms
Examples for "verse"
Examples for "verse"
1
In the space allocated to 'Message' were the following lines of verse:
2
I have facility in writing personal lyrical verse; it affords me relief.
3
In the subterranean passage this verse appears; adulatory it must be confessed:-
4
We pass to the remainder of the regulation in the 40th verse:-
5
But see the use of the same word in the next verse.
1
So before I begin to poetize, I'll take an easy with you.
2
Well, by St. John, I'll poetize, since everybody does; I find it coming.
3
You paint with the chisel and poetize with the brush.
4
They were against reconstruction to beautify and poetize the legends.
5
But to poetize the tragedy of others, to fiddle while Rome is burning, is brutal.
1
To sit at one's ease and poetise-thatis a pleasure; everybody has something agreeable to say to you, and you are always your own master.
2
If you take up business, you drop poetising.
3
No, with-with-reminiscencesofmy travels, which I recount to Hartmut, while he poetises a little, and composes melancholy odes from them.
4
There lies young Wellerby, who, the year before, was wont to pass many hours of the day poetising amid the ruins of Godstow nunnery.
Usage of versify in English
1
This characteristic of genius was discovered by HORACE in that Ode which schoolboys often versify.
2
Alexis," said Babie; "he was asked to versify it."
3
And here another, which would versify into a fine horrible ballad-asgrand and ghastly as Alfred Tennyson's "Sisters:"
4
The following is an attempt to versify this melancholy appeal of distressed human nature to the help and justice of God.
5
For the Munstermen have always been more 'prone to versify' than their leaner neighbours on the bogs and stones of Connaught.
6
A lady loses her muff, her fan, or her lap-dog, and so the silly poet runs home to versify the disaster.'
7
His powers were cramped by the fetters of metre, and his attempts to versify even rich thought and deep feeling were puerile.
8
Of course I did not consider my own foolish little versifying poetry.
9
The first edition contained nineteen psalms only, which were all versified by Sternhold.
10
Here is his rendering of the idea as versified in the Temple of Nature:
11
He even amplified, versified, and enfeebled certain rough and ready sentences dictated by Giles.
12
But peradventure, you think Pope Gregory I lived before Virgil, and Virgil versified him.
13
The same writer has happily versified a pleasant superstition of the valley of the Connecticut.
14
The praises of Boileau, although well versified, had not, however, the fortune to please him.
15
But this from the versified Psalms is still worse, yet it is found in the books:
16
This story has been elegantly versified by Warton.
Frequent collocations
Versify through the time