POETISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poetise mean? 

• POETISE (verb)
  The verb POETISE has 1 sense:

1. compose verses or put into verse

  Familiarity information: POETISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POETISE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compose verses or put into verse

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

poetise; poetize; verse; versify

Context example:

He versified the ancient saga

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:

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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))