Crossword clues for versify
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Versify \Ver"si*fy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Versified; p. pr. & vb. n. Versifying.] [OE. versifien, F. versifier, L. versificare; versus a verse + -ficare to make. See Verse, and -fy.] To make verses.
I'll versify in spite, and do my best.
--Dryden.
Versify \Ver"si*fy\, v. t.
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To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.
I'll versify the truth, not poetize.
--Daniel. To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the Psalms.
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "compose verse, write poetry, make verses," from Old French versifier "turn into verse" (13c.), from Latin versificare "compose verse; put into verse," from versus "verse" (see verse) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Transitive sense of "put into verse" in English is from 1735. Related: Versified; versifying; versifier (mid-14c.).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) to make or compose verses 2 (context intransitive English) to tell in verse; deal with in verse form 3 (context intransitive English) to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form
WordNet
Usage examples of "versify".
Instead of versifying prose, they found it necessary, because of the nature of their art form, to prosify verse.
This arrangement gives it very much the appearance of a journal versified, and effectually precludes any imputation of luxuriance of fancy in the plot.
If this style of writing be continued, we may expect not only the actions of Vindomarus or Ariovistus to be celebrated, but we may perhaps see the history of the Cherokees, Choctaws, and Catabaws, versified in quarto.
Wordsworth was perhaps the greater, because his bathos was the result of a deliberate and persistent attempt to enrich English poetry with prosaically versified incidents drawn at length from homely rural life.
George Sand did not employ a versified form for her stories, but she belonged to the family of these poets.
When we find, as in the case of Mozart, a prodigiously gifted and arduously trained musician who is also, by a happy accident, a dramatist comparable to Moliere, the obligation to compose operas in versified numbers not only does not embarrass him, but actually saves him trouble and thought.
This madness was what they read about, what they versified on for the nourishment of a longing audience, humanity in shirtsleeves, warriors entering into battles they could never win, the stuff of poetry.
The praises of Boileau, although well versified, had not, however, the fortune to please him.
Out of the preceding conversation must have originated the following poem, which was found in the common receptacle of these versified contributions: TARTARUS.
Or suppose he was making an offer of his hand and heart, do you think he would declaim a versified proposal to his Amanda, or perhaps write an impromptu on the back of his hat while he knelt before her?
I was continuing in this way the games of logogriphs and versified charades at which we used sometimes to play together.
Or again, and thus, my daughter, Versified it may be shorter: So all was marriage, joy and laughter, And each lived happy ever after.
Many of the descriptions of manners are versified from the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Of a highly cultivated mind and most lively fancy, she had early improved a taste for versifying, and acquired the habit of readily clothing her thoughts in the language of poetry.
Marvell gave me a hard look before his versifying reclaimed his attention.