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metrify

American  
[me-truh-fahy] / ˈmɛ trəˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

metrified, metrifying

  1. to put into meter; compose in verse.

metrify British  
/ ˈmɛtrɪˌfaɪ /

verb

  1. (tr) prosody to render into poetic metre

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Other Word Forms

  • metrifier noun
  • unmetrified adjective

Etymology

Origin of metrify

1515–25; < French métrifier < Medieval Latin metrificāre, equivalent to metri- (combining form of metrum meter 2 ) + -ficāre -fy

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The first thing required would be to translate the prowess of champions into good and moving narrative; and this would be metrified, because so it becomes both more exciting and more easily remembered.

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