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单词 in verse
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in verse
b. Frequently in verse, in metrical form. Also figurative (quot. 1390).
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in versec1315
poetical?a1450
poetic1656
versicular1812
versified1841
versical1854
versed1890
c1315 Shoreham vii. 191 O god hyt hys, and stent in uers Ine þulke song [= Athanasian Creed].
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 He wenþ libbe yet uourti yer, ase zayþ elyuans ine uers of þe dyaþe.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 3 For Dronkeschipe is so divers, It may no whyle stonde in vers.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. x. 859 His epitaphi þan in werse Wryttyn þus men may rahers.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 3 Two partyes—the fyrst is in prose and the second in verse.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 246 I will no lesingis put in vers.
1557 R. Tottel in Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes Printer to Rdr. sig. A.iv That to haue wel written in verse..deserueth great praise [etc.].
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. C.ii v Thinking nothing to be learnedly written in verse, which fell not out in ryme.
1643 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 178 Job breaths out his passion in verse, and in verse receives his answer.
1689 M. Prior Epist. to F. Shephard 97 In Verse or Prose, We write or chat.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. vii. 136 The Introduction to knowledge, partly in verse and partly in prose.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 124 In Crete and at Sparta..the maxims of the constitution were delivered in verse.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 272 The Romans choose this form..for conveying their feelings in verse.
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