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
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 Edward Hammond Clarke
Most of the men of Bova can poetize in two languages.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The episodes, and the hard characters, and the partly imaginary characters, you had 246 your liberty in; and you have used them well to suffuse and flavor and poetize the story.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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
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
Dante poetized all life and nature as he found them.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana
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
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 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
But the manifestation of the growing ill-feeling towards France was not confined to poor but harmless poetizing.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
For his poetizing he was sick of that also.
From Home Again by George MacDonald
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