versify
/ˈvəːsɪfʌɪ
/verb (versifies, versifying, versified) [with object]
Turn into or express in verse: it was never suggested that Wordsworth should simply versify Coleridge’s ideas (as noun versifying) a talent for versifying...
- C. P. Meehan tells how the poet would lean on the counter in O'Daly's shop and versify literal translations for ready cash.
- The legend was accepted as authentic by chroniclers and versified by Lydgate; the Beauchamp earls claimed descent from Guy.
- Her father approved of his daughter's efforts and occasionally versified her prose translations.
Derivatives
versification
/ noun ...- Their versification is traditional, though impudent rhymes and elusive caesuras shocked diehards.
- And this is certainly the form of the second stanza, which comes across as a much more regular piece of versification than the first.
- Maley takes us through punning, naming, etymological wordplay, versification and other features of the poetic language.
versifier
/ noun ...- In addition to the poet, there is another type of versifier, the bard, who lacked the professional training of the fili.
- He was a stained-glass designer, amateur architect, and occasional versifier (author of ‘I never saw a purple cow’).
- At Oxford, Carroll made a name for himself as a freelance humorist, parodist, and versifier.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French versifier, from Latin versificare, from versus (see verse).