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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"But what am I to poetize on now, Emmeline?—the table, or yourself? because, at present, they are the only subjects under consideration, and I really can not see any thing very poetical in either."
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
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
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
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.
From England's Antiphon by MacDonald, George
Most of the men of Bova can poetize in two languages.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
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
Those who thought him astray on the subject of religion listened to him with delight when he poetized the commonplaces of art, politics, literature or the household.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
Well, here is sleep poetized and made doubly sweet.
From In Defense of Women by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
Prosaic and vulgar as were all these articles, in the dressmaker's imagination they became both poetized and purified.
From A Mummer's Wife by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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
Far from considering it as wasteful to give time and thought to the perfecting, beautifying and poetizing of forms, I think we should spend as much as we can upon it.
From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise
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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