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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Her "Red" and "Yellow Lamas" preserve and poetize her mystery.
From Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Now thus to poetize the tragedy of one's own life is fatuous; it is like enjoying one's dizziness on the brink of a precipice, or the pangs of sickness without seeking a remedy.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
But to poetize the tragedy of others, to fiddle while Rome is burning, is brutal.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
You are the subject now, and, writing you, I well may versify, not poetize: Here needs no fiction: for the graces true And virtues clip not with base flatteries.
From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by J. R. Tutin
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 Friedrich von Hardenberg
There is great difference of opinion among philosophers as to the origin of myths,--whether they began in fable and came to be regarded as history, or began as human history and were poetized into fable.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord
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
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
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
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
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