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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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 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 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
They relieve the grossness of the material enjoyments; they poetize the meal; and if you have no women at table, mon cher, be sure to have flowers: not that I object to both together.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James
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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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
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)
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
Cousin Edith poetized upon the romance of the past; Jasmine counted two hundred and nine paper bags.
From Rich Relatives by MacKenzie, Compton
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
He is one of those wandering minstrels and happy improvisers whom the favor of princes had turned into poetizing beggars.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Passions are as unwholesome as their enemy, thinking, or their friend, poetizing; only the complete coalition of them all is more poisonous still.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
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