poetize

Verb

poetize (third-person singular simple present poetizes, present participle poetizing, simple past and past participle poetized)

1. (transitive) To make (something) poetic.
   • She acknowledged that Wordsworth had done more to make all men poetical, than perhaps any other; that he was the poet of reflection; that where he failed to poetize his subject, his simple faith intimated to the reader a poetry that he did not find in the book.1857, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, volume I
   • Its aim is not merely to reunite all the dispersed classes of poetry, and to place poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric; it aims and ought to aim to mingle and combine poetry and prose, genius and criticism, artistic and natural poetry; to make poetry lively and social, to make life and...1914, Kuno Francke, editor, The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, volume IV
2. (intransitive) To compose poetry.
   • [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature L4, recto
   • It was probably after this amour ended that Sordello sat out upon his travels, visiting most courts, and dwelling long in Provence, where he learned to poetize in the Provencal tongue, in which he thereafter chiefly wrote, and composed many songs.1867, William Dean Howells, Italian Journeys