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
They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
You paint with the chisel and poetize with the brush.
From Old Fritz and the New Era by Peter Langley
I don't know why I poetize on Vicq d'Azyr.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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
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
The sciences are poetized; mathematics also enters the lists.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
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
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
You'll have plenty of time for poetizing and dreaming there.
From My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan
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