单词 | poetize |
释义 | poetizev. 1. intransitive. To act as a poet; to compose poetry; to write or speak in verse, or in poetic style. Cf. poeticize v. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose poetry [verb (intransitive)] versec1000 rhymec1300 versify1377 makea1387 metrea1415 poetizea1586 compose1602 poetrize1602 sing1638 rhythm1655 poeticize1817 poesy1820 rune1832 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. I3 Not onely to read others Poesies, but to poetise for others reading. 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B6 Free Poesie is made a marchandize, Onlie to flatter is to Poetize. 1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium ii. 11 They very curiously could Paint, And neatly Poetize. 1656 S. Vernon Trepan 30 She could not Poetise and scratch Ribaldry Rhymns till they bleed again. 1731 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 2 165 It is but a bold and vain Attempt to poetize in any Language learnt only by Grammar. 1794 Earl of Charlemont in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 5 Polite Lit. 6 The Greeks..were the first who poetized upon this subject. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 355 Go over all the poets who have poetized about the sea. 1895 Wales May 240/2 A shoemaker from Llandwrog was with me..the person who poetized to Mr. Williams in the Bangor paper. 1939 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside xxii. 147 He doesn't look clever but he can poetize. 2003 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 14 Apr. e7 The war, too, shall pass, but the poets will continue to poetize. 2. transitive. To compose poetry about; to write or speak poetically about; to record, tell, or celebrate in poetry. Formerly also with clause as object. Cf. poeticize v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > recount or celebrate in poetry singc825 versifyc1386 verse1446 berime?1589 poetize?1594 warble1605 beverse1763 ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. E3v O Virtue which no muse can poetize. 1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII sig. E If that I could poetize thy deserts, to thy glory coherent, Might not I greatly reioyce? 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica 383 It is poetised of him that in the Elisian field after his death he espoused Medea. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket iii. 124 What Ouid did but Poetize, experience doth moralize, our manners actually performe. 1767 Adventures of Author I. xi. 84 He sighed for her in private, he poetized her in public. 1790 J. Throsby Thoroton's Antiq. Notts. II. 168 Her form, dress and features are thus simply poetized. 1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 23 Instead of the sublime and beautiful, the near, the low, the common, was explored and poetised. 1884 J. Parker Larger Ministry 11 It is irrational..to poetise the moon, and ignore the sun which she modestly reflects. 1891 A. Lang Homer & Epic xi. 287 Hesiod is said to have poetised the facts of that settlement. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 837/2 In Hiawatha (1855) he poetized the Indian life. 1929 H. W. Garrod Profession of Poetry 8 Poetizing the complexity of our material civilization is less easy than a good deal of modern practice might seem to imply. 2001 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 1 Apr. f9 Keats poetized the conflict between literary ambition and the possibility of an untimely death. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > indulge in romance [verb (intransitive)] poetize1595 romanticize1833 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. vi. sig. B2 I versifie the troth, not poetize. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. . ix. ix. 517/2 He [sc. a blacksmith] refused, vttering such words (if Mathew Paris doe not Poetize) as did well shew that honourable thoughts are somtimes found in the hearts of men, whose fortunes are farre from honour. 1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 58 It seems they no whit Poetize, who say that Arithmetick cannot multiply so farre. 1660 G. Wither Speculum Speculativum sig. G5 In this Relation, I, nor Poetize..nor Hyperbolize. 1703 L. Spooner Looking-glass for Smoakers 65 If you think in this I poetize, Or in the Charge of Poison tell you Lies. 4. transitive. To render poetic; to turn into poetry; to imbue with the spirit or style of poetry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > turn into poetry poetize1599 transverse1672 versify1735 poeticize1804 1599 First Bk. Preseruation Henry VII sig. G2v Grant that I may Poetize that credibil history, written By Sir Thomas Moore. 1762 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Mar. 150/2 Virgil has..poetized, (if we may be allowed the expression) a whole sentence by means of the same word, which is pendere. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 32 Shelley poetizes the doctrine when Leon bids the tyrant Othman go free. 1926 Times 19 Nov. 12/4 Of the works by Gainsborough, two in particular show his power of poetising the native scene. 2004 Res. Afr. Lit. 35 (Nexis) 189 He frequently uses rhetorical devices to poetize his prose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1586 |
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