poesyn.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊᵻzi/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊəzi/,

/ˈpoʊəsi/

Forms:

α. Middle English poise (in a late copy), Middle English poisei, Middle English poisye, Middle English poyesye, Middle English poysi, Middle English poysries (plural, transmission error), Middle English–1500s Scottish poyse, Middle English–1500s poisie, Middle English–1500s poysie, Middle English–1500s poysy, Middle English–1500s poysye, 1500s poisee, 1500s poysee.

β. Middle English–1600s poesye, Middle English– poesie (now literary), Middle English– poesy, 1500s poesey, 1500s poesis (plural), 1500s poezi; English regional 1800s– pooasy (northern), 1800s– pooazy (northern), 1800s– poouzy (Isle of Wight), 1800s– pu'asy (northern); also Scottish pre-1700 poecy, pre-1700 pecie (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 poecye, pre-1700 poese.

See also posy n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French poesie.

Etymology: < Middle French poesie (French poésie ) piece of poetry (c1370), art of writing poetry (1372–74), style of a particular poet, era, etc. (1532) < classical Latin poēsis poetry, a poem (see poesis n.). Compare post-classical Latin poesia (c1380 in a British source), Old Occitan poesia (not dated), Catalan poesia poem (1460), poetry (late 15th cent.), Spanish poesía poetry (14th cent.), poem (a1435), Italian poesia art of composing poetry (a1321), poem (a1556). Compare poetry n. and later poem n.

a. A poetic composition; a poem. In early use also: an inventive or imaginative composition.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun]

yedOE

metrea1375

dittya1387

poesya1387

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indite1501

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metro1619

pomec1820

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 143 (MED) He made wonder poysies [L. poemata], as it were, of alle þe stories of holy writte.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2488 He [sc. Mercury] is discriued in Fulgence, In þe book of his methologies, Wher be rehersed many poysyes.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 124 (MED) Þei prechen cronyclis & poisies & newe fyndynges of hem self.

a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 63 (MED) Thei made theire bokis to many men ful derk, In poyses, parabols, & in methaphoris alle-so.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum (at cited word) He that maketh such poesies or Balades.

1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. *iiij We write Poesis apace & of all handes, sum wyth more, and sum with lesse learnynge.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 8 [She] pronoounced a proper poezi in English ryme & meter.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F2^v Holding them but as diuine poesies .

1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions Pref. It was my morning exercise The fruit of intellectuals to vent, In Songs or counterfets of Poesies.

a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 194 Thymætes..wrote a poesy called Phrygia.

1810 A. Liddiard Poems 52 In the poesies of Fontenelle there is an ^epistle from the Maid of Corinth.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. iii. 196 George of Clarence hath some pretty taste in the arts and poesies.

1957 J. Kerouac Let. 18 June in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 209 This shit of..having to do what everybody wants me to do instead of just my old private life of poesies & novelies as of yore.

2004 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 19 Sept. h10 Most American newspapers and magazines regularly featured light verse: humorous little poesies..in clever rhyme.

†b. Poetic expression. As singular mass noun or in plural. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] > a poetical expression

poesya1500

poeticality?1578

poetism1867

poeticism1914

a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1933) 164 178 (MED) In wordys of dowble entendement, In poisie, in sopheme resone hydes.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclviii Thy wordes may nat be queynt ne of subtel maner vnderstadinge. Freel witted people supposen in suche poesies to be begyled.

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F3^v I cannot tricke it vp with poesies.

2. Poetic work or composition, verse; poems collectively or generally; poetry. Formerly also: †the gift or skill of writing poetry (obsolete). Now archaic or depreciative.In early use sometimes including composition in prose, esp. works of imagination or fiction (cf. poem n. 2a, poet n. 2, 3a, poetry n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun]

metrea1375

poesyc1390

Parnassusc1395

poetryc1395

versea1400

remailea1425

poesis1565

poetry1580

muse1651

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry

poesyc1390

makinga1393

rhymingc1405

metringc1425

metrificationc1450

versifyingc1450

rhythming1582

poetrya1586

versinga1586

metredom1592

versification1603

the gay science1693

versemanship1762

rhymery1822

bard-craft1840

poeticism1847

poetism1848

poetics1851

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > poetic faculty or skill

poesy1589

verse-craft1894

c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 145 (MED) Salamon seide in his poysi, He holdeþ wel betere with an hounde Þat is lykyng and Ioly.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 406 (MED) Thanne piped pees of poysye a note.

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 418 Als put is in poise and prikkit be Ouyd.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 79 O pierlesse Poesye, where is then the place?

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G3 It is not ryming and versing, that maketh Poesie. One may bee a Poet without versing, and a versifyer without Poetry.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. i. 53 Poesie is a skill to speake & write harmonically.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2376 in Wks. (1640) III A Poeme..is the worke of the Poet... Poesy is his skill, or Crafte of making.

1656 J. Denham Destr. Troy Pref. sig. A3 Poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one Language into another, it will all evaporate.

1686 J. Dryden To Pious Memory A. Killigrew vi, in A. Killigrew Poems sig. a3 O Gracious God! How far have we Prophan'd thy Heav'nly Gift of Poesy?

a1704 T. Brown Ess. Satire Ancients in Wks. (1730) I. 14 The Satirical poesy of the Greeks.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 176 The Arabs in general are quaint, bold, hospitable, and generous, excessive Lovers of Eloquence and Poesy.

1777 T. Warton Poems 17 Here Poesy..In druid songs her solemn spirit breath'd.

a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) 61 Painting..has been called mute poesy.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 278 Among the arts of English poesie, the most ample and most curious is an anonymous work.

1879 M. Pattison Milton ii. 29 In Lycidas..we have reached the high-water mark of English Poesy and of Milton's own production.

1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 480/1 Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent.

1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus Ded. p. i Your heart..is the limbeck where you brew the honey of your poesy and prose.

1984 S. Steward & S. Garratt Signed Sealed & Delivered v. 97/2 Schoolgirls have a tendency to poesy and introspection, and often keep notebooks of poems and jottings.

2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Mar. c1/2 Most songs are written by a cadre of writers..many of whom excel at finding universal emotions and translating them into greeting-card poesy.

3. A motto or short inscription, usually metrical and in patterned or formal language, esp. (in later use) as inscribed on a ring; = posy n. 1a. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [noun] > in verse

posya1450

poesyc1450

ballad1529

society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > motto or legend

reasona1387

wordc1390

posya1450

poesyc1450

pose?1450

legend?a1500

mot1575

motto1589

faburden1594

device1735

c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 134 (MED) The kynge..kom ouer the see and so to london, and the craftes roode ayenst him in white gounys, embroudered euery craft with diuerse poyses.

1459 in W. D. Macray Reg. Members Magdalen Coll., Oxf. (1894) I. 4 (MED) Item, a spice plate wyth a foote and a sheft of syluer and gilt, wyth hys armys and his poesye, ‘Me faut fayre’, wreten in the myddill.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 315 For your poysy these lettres fyue ye take, Of thys name Maria oonly for hys sake.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxiii. 172 b There was also a superscripcion or poisee written on the toppe of the crosse, derectely ouer his head, in Greke, in Latin, and Hebrue letters.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 364 Out of the very same olde woord..is framed his Poesie, or word vpon his armes (ic Dien) I serue.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 145 I'st a prologue, or a poesie for a ring?

1675 London Gaz. No. 975/4 A Wedding Ring with this Poesie (‘In thee my Choice, I do rejoyce’).

1735 R. Dodsley Toy-shop 19 A pretty Ring with an amorous Poesy.

1785 M. Holford Fanny III. 16 Mutual confidence should be the poesy of my ring, if I was to marry.

1850 Daily (Sandusky, Ohio) Sanduskian 1 Oct. 2/1 She was not encouraged, however, by his treatment, to verify the resolution, which she inscribed as a poesy on her wedding-ring.

1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone III. xxix. 80 Brief as a woman's love, or the poesy of a ring.

1994 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 13 Feb. e1 In the 14th and 15th centuries, the rings were inscribed with ‘posies’ (or poesies) on the outside.

4. A bunch of flowers, a nosegay; = posy n. 2. Now English regional (chiefly northern) and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet

bobc1400

posya1500

poesy1565

bough-pot1585

ramilletec1620

bouquet1717

tisty-tosty1825

booky1842

bokay1847

shower bouquet1891

porte-bouquet1900

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 5^v A gathering flowres from place to place she strayes And..the self same time shee was a sorting gayes Too make a poisie.

1573 G. Gascoigne (title) A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde vp in one small poesie.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii6 Thus poesies of the spring flowers were wrapt vp in a litle grene silke and dedicated to Kalas brestes.

1613 R. Hill Pathway to Prayer (new ed.) sig. M^v They doe offer a poesie of flowers.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 64/1 Sweet William is (as it were) many Pinks growing together like a Poesy.

1753 Catal. Maps, Prints, Copy-bks. (John Bowles & Son) 84 A lady with a poesy of flowers.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 108 Sweeting alone received the poesy like a smart..putting it gallantly and nattily into his button-hole.

1877 W. M. Egglestone Betty Podkins' Visit 11 Gert big pu'asies like shaffs o' stree.

Compounds

General attributive, as †poesy-matter, poesy- ring, poesy spell, etc.

ΚΠ

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv There ben some that speken their poysye mater in frenche.

1832 J. Clare Let. 10 Nov. (1985) 598 A poesy spell for times unborn & when those times are gone The worth of a remoter dawn Shall find his name as one.

1861 Our Eng. Home 151 The banqueting stuff..spread out on painted trenchers and ‘poesie roundels’.

1888 Times 24 Apr. 16/4 Gold poesy rings, miniatures, old silver plate, the property of a collector.

2004 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 5 May e1/2 Among her bestsellers is the ‘poesy’ ring. Inscribed with love sayings, the designs originated in First-Century Rome.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	poesy
释义	poesyn. Brit. /ˈpəʊᵻzi/, U.S. /ˈpoʊəzi/, /ˈpoʊəsi/ Forms: α. Middle English poise (in a late copy), Middle English poisei, Middle English poisye, Middle English poyesye, Middle English poysi, Middle English poysries (plural, transmission error), Middle English–1500s Scottish poyse, Middle English–1500s poisie, Middle English–1500s poysie, Middle English–1500s poysy, Middle English–1500s poysye, 1500s poisee, 1500s poysee. β. Middle English–1600s poesye, Middle English– poesie (now literary), Middle English– poesy, 1500s poesey, 1500s poesis (plural), 1500s poezi; English regional 1800s– pooasy (northern), 1800s– pooazy (northern), 1800s– poouzy (Isle of Wight), 1800s– pu'asy (northern); also Scottish pre-1700 poecy, pre-1700 pecie (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 poecye, pre-1700 poese. See also posy n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French poesie. Etymology: < Middle French poesie (French poésie ) piece of poetry (c1370), art of writing poetry (1372–74), style of a particular poet, era, etc. (1532) < classical Latin poēsis poetry, a poem (see poesis n.). Compare post-classical Latin poesia (c1380 in a British source), Old Occitan poesia (not dated), Catalan poesia poem (1460), poetry (late 15th cent.), Spanish poesía poetry (14th cent.), poem (a1435), Italian poesia art of composing poetry (a1321), poem (a1556). Compare poetry n. and later poem n. 1. a. A poetic composition; a poem. In early use also: an inventive or imaginative composition. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] yedOE metrea1375 dittya1387 poesya1387 poemc1487 indite1501 posy1575 metro1619 pomec1820 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 143 (MED) He made wonder poysies [L. poemata], as it were, of alle þe stories of holy writte. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2488 He [sc. Mercury] is discriued in Fulgence, In þe book of his methologies, Wher be rehersed many poysyes. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 124 (MED) Þei prechen cronyclis & poisies & newe fyndynges of hem self. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 63 (MED) Thei made theire bokis to many men ful derk, In poyses, parabols, & in methaphoris alle-so. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum (at cited word) He that maketh such poesies or Balades. 1567 T. Drant in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie To Rdr. sig. iiij We write Poesis apace & of all handes, sum wyth more, and sum with lesse learnynge. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth* 8 [She] pronoounced a proper poezi in English ryme & meter. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F2^v Holding them but as diuine poesies . View more context for this quotation 1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions Pref. It was my morning exercise The fruit of intellectuals to vent, In Songs or counterfets of Poesies. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) i. 194 Thymætes..wrote a poesy called Phrygia. 1810 A. Liddiard Poems 52 In the poesies of Fontenelle there is an ^epistle from the Maid of Corinth. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. iii. 196 George of Clarence hath some pretty taste in the arts and poesies. 1957 J. Kerouac Let. 18 June in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 209 This shit of..having to do what everybody wants me to do instead of just my old private life of poesies & novelies as of yore. 2004 Tulsa (Oklahoma) World (Nexis) 19 Sept. h10 Most American newspapers and magazines regularly featured light verse: humorous little poesies..in clever rhyme. †b. Poetic expression. As singular mass noun or in plural. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] > a poetical expression poesya1500 poeticality?1578 poetism1867 poeticism1914 a1500 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1933) 164 178 (MED) In wordys of dowble entendement, In poisie, in sopheme resone hydes. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclviii Thy wordes may nat be queynt ne of subtel maner vnderstadinge. Freel witted people supposen in suche poesies to be begyled. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F3^v I cannot tricke it vp with poesies. 2. Poetic work or composition, verse; poems collectively or generally; poetry. Formerly also: †the gift or skill of writing poetry (obsolete). Now archaic or depreciative.In early use sometimes including composition in prose, esp. works of imagination or fiction (cf. poem n. 2a, poet n. 2, 3a, poetry n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] metrea1375 poesyc1390 Parnassusc1395 poetryc1395 versea1400 remailea1425 poesis1565 poetry1580 muse1651 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > art or practice of poetry poesyc1390 makinga1393 rhymingc1405 metringc1425 metrificationc1450 versifyingc1450 rhythming1582 poetrya1586 versinga1586 metredom1592 versification1603 the gay science1693 versemanship1762 rhymery1822 bard-craft1840 poeticism1847 poetism1848 poetics1851 poetics1851 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > poetic faculty or skill poesy1589 verse-craft1894 c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 145 (MED) Salamon seide in his poysi, He holdeþ wel betere with an hounde Þat is lykyng and Ioly. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xviii. 406 (MED) Thanne piped pees of poysye a note. c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 418 Als put is in poise and prikkit be Ouyd. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 79 O pierlesse Poesye, where is then the place? a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G3 It is not ryming and versing, that maketh Poesie. One may bee a Poet without versing, and a versifyer without Poetry. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. i. 53 Poesie is a skill to speake & write harmonically. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2376 in Wks. (1640) III A Poeme..is the worke of the Poet... Poesy is his skill, or Crafte of making. 1656 J. Denham Destr. Troy Pref. sig. A3 Poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one Language into another, it will all evaporate. 1686 J. Dryden To Pious Memory A. Killigrew vi, in A. Killigrew Poems sig. a3 O Gracious God! How far have we Prophan'd thy Heav'nly Gift of Poesy? a1704 T. Brown Ess. Satire Ancients in Wks. (1730) I. 14 The Satirical poesy of the Greeks. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 176 The Arabs in general are quaint, bold, hospitable, and generous, excessive Lovers of Eloquence and Poesy. 1777 T. Warton Poems 17 Here Poesy..In druid songs her solemn spirit breath'd. a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) 61 Painting..has been called mute poesy. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 278 Among the arts of English poesie, the most ample and most curious is an anonymous work. 1879 M. Pattison Milton ii. 29 In Lycidas..we have reached the high-water mark of English Poesy and of Milton's own production. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 480/1 Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent. 1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus Ded. p. i Your heart..is the limbeck where you brew the honey of your poesy and prose. 1984 S. Steward & S. Garratt Signed Sealed & Delivered v. 97/2 Schoolgirls have a tendency to poesy and introspection, and often keep notebooks of poems and jottings. 2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Mar. c1/2 Most songs are written by a cadre of writers..many of whom excel at finding universal emotions and translating them into greeting-card poesy. 3. A motto or short inscription, usually metrical and in patterned or formal language, esp. (in later use) as inscribed on a ring; = posy n. 1a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [noun] > in verse posya1450 poesyc1450 ballad1529 society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > motto or legend reasona1387 wordc1390 posya1450 poesyc1450 pose?1450 legend?a1500 mot1575 motto1589 faburden1594 device1735 c1450 in C. L. Kingsford Chrons. London (1905) 134 (MED) The kynge..kom ouer the see and so to london, and the craftes roode ayenst him in white gounys, embroudered euery craft with diuerse poyses. 1459 in W. D. Macray Reg. Members Magdalen Coll., Oxf. (1894) I. 4 (MED) Item, a spice plate wyth a foote and a sheft of syluer and gilt, wyth hys armys and his poesye, ‘Me faut fayre’, wreten in the myddill. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 315 For your poysy these lettres fyue ye take, Of thys name Maria oonly for hys sake. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxiii. 172 b There was also a superscripcion or poisee written on the toppe of the crosse, derectely ouer his head, in Greke, in Latin, and Hebrue letters. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 364 Out of the very same olde woord..is framed his Poesie, or word vpon his armes (ic Dien) I serue. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 145 I'st a prologue, or a poesie for a ring? 1675 London Gaz. No. 975/4 A Wedding Ring with this Poesie (‘In thee my Choice, I do rejoyce’). 1735 R. Dodsley Toy-shop 19 A pretty Ring with an amorous Poesy. 1785 M. Holford Fanny III. 16 Mutual confidence should be the poesy of my ring, if I was to marry. 1850 Daily (Sandusky, Ohio) Sanduskian 1 Oct. 2/1 She was not encouraged, however, by his treatment, to verify the resolution, which she inscribed as a poesy on her wedding-ring. 1887 W. F. Barry New Antigone III. xxix. 80 Brief as a woman's love, or the poesy of a ring. 1994 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) 13 Feb. e1 In the 14th and 15th centuries, the rings were inscribed with ‘posies’ (or poesies) on the outside. 4. A bunch of flowers, a nosegay; = posy n. 2. Now English regional (chiefly northern) and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > flower arrangement > bouquet bobc1400 posya1500 poesy1565 bough-pot1585 ramilletec1620 bouquet1717 tisty-tosty1825 booky1842 bokay1847 shower bouquet1891 porte-bouquet1900 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iv. f. 5^v A gathering flowres from place to place she strayes And..the self same time shee was a sorting gayes Too make a poisie. 1573 G. Gascoigne (title) A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde vp in one small poesie. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ii6 Thus poesies of the spring flowers were wrapt vp in a litle grene silke and dedicated to Kalas brestes. 1613 R. Hill Pathway to Prayer (new ed.) sig. M^v They doe offer a poesie of flowers. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 64/1 Sweet William is (as it were) many Pinks growing together like a Poesy. 1753 Catal. Maps, Prints, Copy-bks. (John Bowles & Son) 84 A lady with a poesy of flowers. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. 108 Sweeting alone received the poesy like a smart..putting it gallantly and nattily into his button-hole. 1877 W. M. Egglestone Betty Podkins' Visit 11 Gert big pu'asies like shaffs o' stree. Compounds General attributive, as †poesy-matter, poesy- ring, poesy spell, etc. ΚΠ 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv There ben some that speken their poysye mater in frenche. 1832 J. Clare Let. 10 Nov. (1985) 598 A poesy spell for times unborn & when those times are gone The worth of a remoter dawn Shall find his name as one. 1861 Our Eng. Home 151 The banqueting stuff..spread out on painted trenchers and ‘poesie roundels’. 1888 Times 24 Apr. 16/4 Gold poesy rings, miniatures, old silver plate, the property of a collector. 2004 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 5 May e1/2 Among her bestsellers is the ‘poesy’ ring. Inscribed with love sayings, the designs originated in First-Century Rome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † poesyv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: poesy n. Etymology: < poesy n. Compare earlier poetize v. Obsolete. intransitive. To produce poetry. In quot. figurative.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose poetry [verb (intransitive)] versec1000 rhymec1300 versify1377 makea1387 metrea1415 poetizea1586 compose1602 poetrize1602 sing1638 rhythm1655 poeticize1817 poesy1820 rune1832 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 53 So said, his erewhile timid lips grew bold, And poesied with hers in dewy rhyme. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.a1387v.1820
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poesyn.

Compounds

† poesyv.