poetize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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to express poetically.
to poetize a story.
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to make or treat as poetic; poeticize.
to poetize reality.
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It is necessary for everyone to poetize his sensations in order to comprehend them.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
Most of the men of Bova can poetize in two languages.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
To poetize the truth in the science of charity and forgiveness can never be a great sin.
From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.
They were against reconstruction to beautify and poetize the legends.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.
"Is he to poetize or administer pills?" asked Wright, turning to me.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith
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 sciences are poetized; mathematics also enters the lists.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
In other words, according to these Roman traditions here poetized, the heat dried up the rivers of Europe, Asia, and Africa; in short, of all the known world.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Donnelly, Ignatius
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 Brann, William Cowper
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
But the manifestation of the growing ill-feeling towards France was not confined to poor but harmless poetizing.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
It is true that, in poetizing love, we assume in those we love qualities that are lacking in them, and that is a source of continual mistakes and continual miseries for us.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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