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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They were against reconstruction to beautify and poetize the legends.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura F. Kready
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
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
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty.
From England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
To poetize the truth in the science of charity and forgiveness can never be a great sin.
From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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
Poetry and individual poets receive grateful consideration, the seasons are overworked, love rarely fails and nature never, wine and the Rhine are not forgotten, and the South is poetized as the land of undying inspiration.
From Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei by Allen Wilson Porterfield
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
I continued, but all arguments were poetized into feelings.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
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
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
Aeschylus, in fact, was poetizing an earlier legend of the fortress of Cadmus.
From Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
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