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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You paint with the chisel and poetize with the brush.
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Peter Langley
When we talk of being invaded in the north, we poetize the idea of defense by the figure of defending our hearthstones.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
To the good gentlemen who poetize concerning grace and the antique, who sigh for togas, stolas, and paludaments, I say, Go to.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
So before I begin to poetize, i'll take an easy with you.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.
From England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
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
Another poetized of the "Great day When Hamilton--disrobed of mortal clay-- At God's right hand shall sit with face benign, And at his murderer cast a look divine."
From History of the United States, Volume 2 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
Until the middle of the nineteenth century, knowledge of mythology was practically limited to the poetized mythology of the Greeks and Romans.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
I take it that the Farmer's Boy is poetry, not merely slightly poetized prose in the form of verse, although it is undoubtedly poetry of a very humble order.
From Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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
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
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
I am, therefore," said I, "always surprised at the learned, who seem to suppose that poetizing proceeds not from life to the poem, but from the book to the poem.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
Such forms are perhaps best understood as hybrid, a kind of poetizing of philosophy, a sort of reasoning in verse, and therefore forms in which the imagination is not given full exercise.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson
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