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单词 reversify
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reversifyv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈvəːsᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌriˈvərsəˌfaɪ/, /rəˈvərsəˌfaɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, versify v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + versify v.
transitive. To turn (a text) into verse again; to rework (a piece of verse) into a different form.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > turn into poetry > turn into verse again
reversify1763
1763 (title) Churchill's epistle to William Hogarth, Esq. re-versified.
1804 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 2 549 Thus the following sonnet is reversified from Mr. Bowles.
1873 D. Masson Drummond of Hawthornden vii. 118 He had been hammering at the Psalms, revising an old version of one..or quite re-versifying another.
1925 W. L. Renwick Edmund Spenser v. 135 Chaucer was a source of language and style rather than of matter. To re-versify him would be to fall into the error of the latinists.
1954 K. Young John Dryden xii. 201 Pepys..has one request to make: that among the pieces Dryden reversifies from Chaucer shall be his ‘Character of a Good Parson’.
2004 E. Zuccato in R. A. Cardwell Reception of Byron in Europe 83 They always reshaped and reversified their materials for musical and dramatic purposes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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