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POETISE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compose verses or put into verse
Example:
He versified the ancient saga
Synonyms:
poetise; poetize; verse; versify
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "poetise" is one way to...):
compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)
Domain category:
poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "poetise"):
metrify (compose in poetic meter)
spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)
elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)
sonnet (compose a sonnet)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
poetiser (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))
