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▪ I. versifying, vbl. n.|ˈvɜːsɪfaɪɪŋ|
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The act or practice of making verses; an instance of this; the art of composing verse; versification.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 189 No clerke abyl to bere oure book Of versyfyeng, nor of other scyens. 1479Paston Lett. III. 241, I lake no thynge but wersyfyynge, whyche I troste to have with a lytyll contynuance. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 147 Yet neither of them hath fullie hite perfite and trew versifying. 1580Spenser Let. to Harvey Wks. (1912) 636, I perceiue you other whiles continue your old exercise of Versifying in English. a1653Gouge Comm. Hebr. v. 14 A scholar exercised in versifying will readily distinguish between a true and false verse. 1677J. Peter (title), Artificial Versifying; a New Way to make Latin Verses. 1740J. Clarke Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 61 Of what Use Versifying is,..I do not understand. 1830Southey Bunyan p. xlix, In versifying he was attempting an art which he had never learnt, and for which he had no aptitude. 1892Athenæum 6 Aug. 190/1 What really genuine poetic inspiration he showed is lost in the commonplace of too idle versifyings.
b. attrib., as versifying dialogue, etc.
1686in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 424 As to y[ou]r Versifying Dialogue with Him, I like it very well. 1725Watts Logic iii. ii. §3, I confess some of these logical Subtilties have much more Use than those versifying Tables. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 148/1, I shall exemplify by a Text, where a Singing, or mere Versifying Repetition, is literally express'd. 1787Skinner Let. in Wks. Burns (1800) II. 127, I know a classical education will not create a versifying taste. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 839 If free, all fly his versifying fit. 1885Athenæum 11 July 50/1 Godwin desired Wordsworth to undertake the versifying part of the business.
▪ II. ˈversifying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That versifies or writes verses.
15802nd & 3rd Blast Plays & Theatres 110 These versifieng Plaie-makers. 1750Gray Long Story 18 Shame of the versifying tribe! 1893Walker Three Churchmen 134 The reviewers he looks upon as ‘gamekeepers’, doing invaluable service to literature by keeping the versifying ‘poachers’ off Parnassus. |