berimeberhymev.
/bɪˈrʌɪm/ 1. transitive. To compose rhymes about, to celebrate in rhyme; often, to lampoon.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > recount or celebrate in poetry
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?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 42 Another while hee would all to berime Doctour Perne..and make a by word of his bald pate.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 172 I was neuer so berim ['] d since Pythagoras time that I was an Irish Rat. View more context for this quotation
1790 J. Wolcot Advice to Future Laureat in Wks. (1812) II. 333 Rush loyal to berhyme a King and Queen.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 260 Some glowing lines, in which I berhymed the little lady.
2. To compose in rhyme, put into rhyme.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > rhyme with [verb (transitive)] > put into rhyme
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1801 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 382 The ladies cannot endure the metre of ‘Thallaba’..Berime it, and they will bepraise it.
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