poetize

American  

[poh-i-tahyz] / ˈpoʊ ɪˌtaɪz /

especially British, poetise

verb (used without object)

poetized, poetizing

1. to write poetry.

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verb (used with object)

poetized, poetizing

1. to express poetically.

   to poetize a story.

2. to make or treat as poetic; poeticize.

   to poetize reality.

Other Word Forms

• poetizer noun
• unpoetized adjective

Etymology

Origin of poetize

First recorded in 1575–85; poet + -ize

Example Sentences

I don't know why I poetize on Vicq d'Azyr.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

They develop exotically, scarce one that does not grow outside its original sphere, assimilate foreign unhistorical matter, blur all chronology, and anachronistically poetize the dim recollections of a historical but long-forgotten underground.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

From the puppet craze well on into his precocious university life it was his passion to explore the widest ranges of experience and then to reflect, moralize, or poetize upon them.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

So before I begin to poetize, i'll take an easy with you.

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome

You are the subject now, and, writing you, I well may versify, not poetize: Here needs no fiction: for the graces true And virtues clip not with base flatteries.

From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Tutin, J. R.

Related Words

• conceive
• design
• devise
• form
• invent
• orchestrate
• pen
• produce
• set up
• write