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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Origin of poetize
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They relieve the grossness of the material enjoyments; they poetize the meal; and if you have no women at table, mon cher, be sure to have flowers: not that I object to both together.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
A woman, he told himself, should appear to us in dreams, or such a glory as may poetize her vulgarity.
From Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet Hazlewood; but, by Jove! you'll find it won't do in practical life.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
Her "Red" and "Yellow Lamas" preserve and poetize her mystery.
From Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
He may poetize fairly, and saw poorly; or he may saw fairly, and poetize poorly; or he may both saw and poetize indifferently.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
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
"Hideous thing to be poetized," thought Truesdale; "but they all do it in one way or another."
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
The sick-bed is poetized as the cradle of knowledge, for in it, or on it, we become introspective and learn life.
From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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 Ignatius Donnelly
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 come into breakfast and stop your poetizing.
From The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Laura Dent Crane
My certie, but I'll spoil his actings, his writings, his inditings, his poetizing, and rhapsodizing.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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