poeticize

Verb

poeticize (third-person singular simple present poeticizes, present participle poeticizing, simple past and past participle poeticized)

1. (transitive) To make poetic, or express in poetry.
   • The ambition of Russia is most elaborately exposed in an essay highly poeticized.1829 July, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume 99, page 50
   • To the ancients in Mesopotamia as well as in Mexico this movement was poeticized as a journey through the underworld.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 174
2. (intransitive) To write or speak in the manner of a poet.
   • 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!1846, Peers and parvenus, volumes 1-3, page 166
   • 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 […]1870, Leigh Hunt, A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected