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Webster 1913 Edition
Poetize
Po′et-ize
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Poetized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Poetizing
.] [Cf. F.
poétiser
.] To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.
I versify the truth, not
poetize
. Donne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Poetize
PO'ETIZE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
poetize
poetize
English
Verb
poetize (third-person singular simple present poetizes, present participle poetizing, simple past and past participle poetized)
- To make poetic.
- 1857, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I:
- She acknowledged that Wordsworth had done more to make all men poetical, than perhaps any other; that he was the poet of reflection; that where he failed to poetize his subject, his simple faith intimated to the reader a poetry that he did not find in the book.
- 1914, Editor-in-Chief= Kuno Francke, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV:
- Its aim is not merely to reunite all the dispersed classes of poetry, and to place poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric; it aims and ought to aim to mingle and combine poetry and prose, genius and criticism, artistic and natural poetry; to make poetry lively and social, to make life and society poetic; to poetize wit, to saturate all the forms of art with worthy materials of culture and enliven them by the sallies of humor.
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- To compose poetry.
- 1914, Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief), The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III:
- This it is that, particularly in my earlier years, gave me a rather awkward appearance both in the field of speculation and in that of poetry; for the poetic mind generally got the better of me when I ought to have philosophized, and my philosophical mind when I wished to poetize.