Poeticize

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make poetic, or express in poetry..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make poetic, or express in poetry.
2. (intransitive) To write or speak in the manner of a poet.

Example Sentences

The ambition of Russia is most elaborately exposed in an essay highly poeticized.

To the ancients in Mesopotamia as well as in Mexico this movement was poeticized as a journey through the underworld.

For me, the process of poeticizing the DSM is a way to enhance my empathic understanding of clients.

His poeticized version of a news flash about the advent of AIDS (the disease that killed his mother) electrifies, as it should, like unexpected lightning.

They may poeticize when they come down upon the glory of the unclouded sun, or the extensive wonders of the developed landscape; but, my word for it, all was lost upon them, so long as their chief care was not to break their necks by a sudden descent!

Then, if I wish to poeticize upon it at home, there is Belinda, with her sylphs, drinking it in such state as nothing but poetry can supply […]

One play is about a weak man who, under pressure, gives up his friend first and his crown later, and interests us only in his very human weakness and by virtue of the faint halo that is cast around it by all the grace and poeticizing.

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• poeticizes
• poeticizing
• poeticized
• poeticise

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