berhyme

American  

[bih-rahym] / bɪˈraɪm /

Or berime

verb (used with object)

berhymed, berhyming

1. to celebrate in verse.

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Etymology

Origin of berhyme

First recorded in 1580–90; be- + rhyme

Example Sentences

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berhyme berhymed berhyming

Poetasters and cheap sentimentalists will berhyme and beguile you: I cannot help it; but I will at least attempt to administer the corrective of what should be common sense.

From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail

And the girl beside him was beautiful enough to take Whitehall by storm, to be berhymed by Waller, and to give to Lely a subject above all flattery.

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary

When Rosalind finds the verses with which her enamored Orlando had hung the trees, she exclaimed, "I was never so berhymed since Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The ladies who, in earlier ages, were proud in proportion to the quantity of blood spilt in honour of their charms, were now seized with a passion for being berhymed.

From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Larks stewed in Morning's roseate breath,   Or roasted by a sunbeam's splendor; And nightingales, berhymed to death—   Like young pigs whipt to make them tender.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Lines to the "Mariposa" flower were as thick as the lovely blossoms themselves in the Merced valley, and the Madrone tree was as "berhymed" as Rosalind.

From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Harte, Bret

Is it not he who said, berhyming on a Medinite's slave girl, so that she might outlive her master:-- Allah be judge betwixt me and her lord Whoever flies with her--and I pursue.'

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

Is it not he who said, berhyming on a Medinite's slave-girl, so she might outlive her lord, Allah be judge betwixt me and her lord!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He was celebrating that of Haydn, the great composer—giving a dinner, crowning his bust with laurels, berhyming the poor dear German, and conducting an apotheosis in full form.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette