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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Life is not life if I must cease to think, Or, thinking, cease to poetize.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
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 Clarke, Edward Hammond
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.
From England's Antiphon by MacDonald, George
So before I begin to poetize, i'll take an easy with you.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
"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
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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Poetry and individual poets receive grateful consideration, the seasons are overworked, love rarely fails and nature never, wine and the Rhine are not forgotten, and the South is poetized as the land of undying inspiration.
From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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 Lord, John
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
Goethe cared little for him; Voltaire laughed at him; Nietzsche called him "an hyaena poetizing among the tombs."
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
It is very easy to laugh at the optimist, and to accuse him of "poetizing the truth."
From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.
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