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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V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
He had been touched with the prevailing romanticism; he had written hymns like Manzoni, and, like Carrer, he sought to poetize the traditions and superstitions of his countrymen.
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
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
But his finest poems are those which celebrate the affections of the household, and poetize the pathetic beauty of toil and poverty in city and country.
From Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
I agree, my master, that 'tis better to philosophize and poetize, to blow the flame in the furnace, or to receive it from carry cats on a shield.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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
All the activities of newspaper production were poetized by her fervour.
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
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 William Cowper Brann
The seeing of his name in print was no longer a novelty and he poetized not quite as steadily.
From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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
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 Constance Garnett
He was always obliged to go on poetizing, and then every thing that came from the man, especially from his heart, was excellent.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
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